I have a Hog Bipe in the box and it will be my winter project this year. It is my second kit, and I have been flying for 3 years now. I have 6 planes flying and 5 that ...well let's just say provided great parts for other planes.... I can think of a lot of better planes for you as a second plane. And if you really want to build, the SIG 4 Star line is a good group of kit planes as indicated here on this site. My second plane was a 4*60, but it is the ARF. I built the Something Extra as my first kit, but it wasn't my second plane either. By the time I had it finished, it was more like my 5th or 6th one.

However, if you still want to consider the Hog Bipe, you can do what I did. I looked at several instruction manuals online for several bipes before I made my decision. Since I couldn't find the Hog Bipe online, I called them and they sent me the plans for $5.00. That way I could look through them and decide if I still wanted to build it.