Thank you all for the advice. You've provided me with some encouraging comments. When I first started out on the sim with airplanes I had a very difficult time figuring out the orientation and flight characterisitcs. It actually took me longer to consistently land the airplane than it did to hover with the heli. But like the heli, I found that airplanes too have a large learning curve to overcome, much larger than I expected.

But I'll avoid the Texan, or any flat bottom wing as rreiss suggested. The one thing I noticed the sim doesn't do very well is replicate take offs. I assume this since it requires zero effort to take off. I basically just throttle up and yank back on the stick. From what I've been reading it sounds like take offs are more involved than this, and can be kinda tricky.

Anyhow, I have an good idea of what to look for now. Thanks again.