The twist is definately a fun little plane and you simply can't beat the price. The one thing I noticed about helis is that if you get in trouble in a hover you can jam the throttle and climb or at least the roll/pitch response is always there and you can usually counter what the heli does and get it back to a hover. An airplane that is in a hover doesn't react like a heli and you are going to need the practice to get used to it. I have hovered a bunch of planes and when they have the right engine/prop and control throws/balance it's really not hard to do. If those things are not right and your not sure which way to push the stick immediately you will dork it, that's where the sim becomes so valuable.

I think my buddy could have moved some things around to get the balance in on his Twist so I wasn't knocking the ST he had one it. He's also new to RC and is still learning about balance and hasn't really dailed the plane in yet, even with that it flew pretty good and I got some nice hovers out of it. Other maneuvers were pretty good too but it was apparent that moving the balance back would help quite a bit with the 3D stuff, like water falls and inverted harriers.