Most people are started on forty sized trainers. I agree that larger is better, larger planes tend to react slower when practicing skills. You can learn on any plane, if you have the dough to buy replacements. A Hangar 9 Ultra Stik would make a good trainer for someone coming back into the hobby, but it doesn't have any self correcting features built in. If you bank it hard it stays that way or rolls over, the stick is a plane that must be corrected by flying it. The dihedral built into the wing of a trainer, will correct its flight given enough altitude and proper use of the throttle. If you get a trainer out of control during your session, back off the throttle center the sticks and it will settle down. Then continue to fly, my advise is get the Rtf from either Tower Hobbies or Horizon Hobbies. Immediately, open the box plug in the charger connect it to the transmitter and receiver. Putting the plane together takes about 45 minutes to and hour, your flying the next day. If you have a quick charger the same day. Have fun!!!!!!

will