I would not reccomend a turbine as a first plane.

The thing about a turbine is, flying one depending on the model is actually not that hard. Taking off is not really that hard either also depending on the model. It's the landings that require a LOT of learning.

Your dealing with a few factors, like residual thrust and throttle lag.
Most of the time you will land long until you figure out how to get the plane slowed down at the right time. If your short, you cannot just "blip" the throttle like a prop. You are dealing with spool up times of 5-7 seconds. That's a long time when your plane is reaching stalling speed faster that the turbine can catch up.

My main focus of rc airplanes has been ducted fan for the last 12 or so years. I flew almost every single jet made and I would say that I was a very proficient jet flyer.

So when it came time to get a turbine, I would have thought I would transition pretty easily....WRONG!

The plane I chose was a "turbine trainer", which by the way really doesn't mean it flies like a trainer. It is still a pretty heavy wing loaded aircraft and can be quite fast.
The takeoff was a cinch, the flight was fantastic, but when it came time to land, I found myself going around, and going around, and going around until I thought I had it nailed.

behold the results: [link=http://www.clubfield.com/av8rcrash.MPG]First Turbine Landing[/link]

The plane luckily was not damaged and I went on to fly this plane about 40 more times before I lost it in a spin recently.