I'm with Vraptor. The SlowStick is a great trainer. It turns on a dime and just kinda floats through the air. There's always time to make a correction.

I found it to be a bit pricey by the time I bought all the radio gear it needed, but maybe you can salvage the guts of a crashed plane.

I vastly preferred the SlowStick over the V-tail two channel plane I had from Megatech, and actually I prefer it over the ParkZone J-3, which is a nice plane in many respects.

Oh, and the tall landing gear of the SlowStick will let you ROG and land on soccer field turf.

Only downside I know of is it can't handle much wind, and it's kinda big and fragile to throw in the back of the car.