Being that you have no r/c experience and want to get into flying, my suggestion as a flying noob, but had everything else in r/c for 40 years, is two things. First, get yourself a flight simulator (Phoenix 5.5). It's the easiest and cheapest way to get a feel for flying. You will learn a LOT from it. Second, I'm going to recommend the Eflite Apprentice RTF. It's a great learning tool and being that it's RTF, you won't have to deal with programming a higher end radio and, it can be used for the simulator. Now the best part of all is this, if you decide that flying really isn't for you, you won't have a ton of money invested and should be able to recover about 75% of it if you sold it all. However if you do decide that flying is the best thing since pockets, then the sky is the limit money-wise. R/C is very addicting and it's really difficult to stop. In all the years I've been involved, I've spent probably close to $30,000 on r/c and I'm most likely on the low to middle ground with most people on that. There are a lot of people that have that much in one plane!!