I think i am going to go with the Tower Hobbies trainer- if you fly with a certified instructor(which i intend to do) and you still crash it, Tower will replace the plane. Although i do have quite a bit of expierience building models, you make a good point about learning planes-all different types of r/c models have there quirks,cars,boats,planes whatever. Perhaps i will get 2 kits 1 trainer and 1 sport. its probably going to be a long winter. BTW byris, what type of planes do you fly?