If your going to teach yourself how to fly a stick plus 40 isn't a bad plane. i just tought myself how to fly the past couple of weeks and ramed it strait into the ground 6 or 7 times, almost every time i have to glue somethen back on, put a new prop on, and patch up little holes in the wing. but now i can go fly for a couple of hours and bring it home in one piece. the stick plus 40 flies kind of fast for a trainer but any plane that can last through that many bad crashes is worth it in the wallet. i did have a little flying expearence about 6 year ago in jr high i could fly my dads plane around in the air a little bit, but never took off or landed. and i fly out in the middle of nowhere so the only person i can hit is myself.