Okay, as someone that's been a long time R/Cer, I'm going to agree and disagree with the "Cowboy".
First off, since you've been spending time on a sim, the question is how did you control the plane on the sim? Did you use an actual R/C remote style controller or a keyboard/mouse interface? This is important since, if you used a keyboard & mouse, the eye/hand coordination is totally different than using an actual R/C style controller.
Flying a full sized plane doesn't translate to an R/C. You can feel and see what the plane is doing from the inside, not so with an R/C. Even with a FPV set up, you can see but not feel what is going on.
Now, as for your aircraft, there are several out there. Don't get too hung up on looks as many "scale like" planes are not good to learn with. I've seen where people will compare that to giving the keys to a Mustang or Camaro with a big V-8 and 5(or more) speed manual transmission to a 16 year old that is just learning to drive. The eye/hand/foot coordination and knowledge just isn't there to drive that kind of car. A scale looking airplane is the same way. Let me throw a few that I would consider at you:
https://www.towerhobbies.com/product...e/EFL3700.html
https://sigmfg.com/collections/sig-a...rita-sport-arf
https://sigmfg.com/collections/sig-k...et-mark-ii-kit
The first one is basically a ready to go foam plane that comes with everything(as far as I know anyway, might need batteries and a charger)
The second is an assemble the ready to go parts, install a motor, batteries and a sold separate radio and fly. Both of these are minimal work to get into the air
The third is my personal choice, being a build from die cut wood kit. It can be powered by batteries or a nitro fuel engine(all sold separately)
As far as a radio, there's a lot of options not to mention price ranges. For a beginner, if you want to stay in the hobby, I'd look at something like this:
https://www.towerhobbies.com/product.../FUTK6000.html
You don't need to be looking at bells and whistles at this point, just something that will get you into the air and give you some room to grow. This radio does that, as well as giving the basics you would need on a second or third plane as well.
If there is a club in your area, I would talk to the people that fly there, get first hand advice and, above all, FIND OUT WHO THE INSTRUCTOR(S) IS/ARE AND SEE IF HE/THEY IS/ARE SOMEONE YOU CAN WORK WITH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There's nothing worse than getting into a class and finding the instructor is a total jerk or not someone you can learn from. I ran into that a while back, in a math class I was taking. The instructor was not someone that could instruct, just talked to the white board and kept saying how he didn't understand how the class couldn't get it. I passed the course thanks to the girl sitting next to me, someone that only took the course because she didn't quite score high enough on the entrance tests for the next level up that both she and I needed for our degrees.