Hold on a minute, he said that he had asked for advice and indicated that it wasn't the right advice for him. That normally doesn't set well with folks who take time with people asking about learning to fly planes. He left room for people to take it the way it sounded. I'm not an instructor in rc planes, but I was in full scale helicopters. I had a student who claimed he had his hot air balloon ticket, and my flight instruction wasn't the right instruction for him. Guess who had a hard time learning and failed his checkride while irritating the h*ll out of a bunch of people along the way.

Some people are suggesting low wing, taildraggers for a beginner plane...aka his trainer. Uh, nobody at my club would suggest that to a first time flyer. The right advice would be to look around for an instructor with a trainer for him to learn on if he is dead set against buying his own. If money is an issue with him, then this is better advice yet. What are the odds that he will ball up his advanced plane on the first few flights? If money is the main driver then he doesn't need to be trashing his first plane when he is learning.

Speaking of helicopters and planes, they ain't the same thing. I had to unlearn a lot to fly planes. Some of my 'air sense' helped, but it definately wasn't enough to reject ANY instruction or advice from anyone at the field, even the new guys with trainers.