Good choice, I have that plane, and it flies great, handles the wind well, and can fly inverted at half throttle with no problems. I find the flaps very helpful, and would recommend setting them up, not because you should use them immidiately, but they are fun to mess around with later on. They do help with landings on calm days aswell.

As far as the nexstar, I have that aswell, and I find it to fly quite well. It certianly is not as good in the wind, less aerobatic in high rates, and will barely fly inverted at full throttle with nearly full down, other than that it flies great, and o fcourse when you just start, those things don't matter to you anyways. I did win it though, and would not buy it, only because of all the stuff that comes with it which is useless, and it only increases the price.