If you want to just fly the park flyers then go for it and buy one of the 3D foamies. If you want to fly glow or gas, then ask yourself these questions: Can you take off, land, recover from a stall, flat spin, maintain a constant altitude throughout the pattern, land dead stick? Do all the above inverted and keep the plane in one piece? If yes to all the above, then get your 3D plane. If no to any, then get a all wood trainer and maybe an advance aerobatics trainer to start with. You will be saving youself tons of money and frustartion.