I mention market place mostly because you can often find things locally. I guess Craigslist is also still out there although I don't know if it is worth the effort.

Real flight is good for getting back in the saddle. You wont regret spending some time shooting landings. The main thing to be careful about is that your brain remembers that you were however good of a pilot that you were but your hands have forgotten a lot of the moves. Lately we have had two guys at our flying field who have returned after a decade or more layoff. On guy came back with the latest hotness that he got online and immediately proceeded to crash it. He blew through several airplanes and blamed other who had tried to help him set up his equipment. The other flier is an older fellow who was a pretty good pilot fifteen or twenty years ago. I have to give him credit. In his eighties he has better reflexes that some people half his age but he has been pretty methodical in his return to flying. He has started back with inexpensive foamies and after the summer has passed he is back to flying 3-D maneuvers. Watching these two fellows has informed a lot of my advice to anybody getting back in the air. The first fellow has settled down a bit BTW and is more tolerable to be around.

As for Wattflyer, apparently there is a story there but I suspect that part of it is that electric flight has just become the mainstream rather than the exception.