Is this the 96" $569 plane? If so, you are insane to use this plane as your trainer! Get a $100 ARF trainer and a .46 engine. If you have a nice plane it isn't going to look nice by the time you get done learning to fly. Keep it on the shelf until you are very confident in your abilities. Just last week I tore the landing gear off my trainer. Would hurt to do that on a really nice plane.