id agree your going to be influenced quite a bit by what is flown locally. racing, Q-500,club 20, pattern , giant scale , fun fly etc. also expect your tastes to change some(maybe a lot) as you gain experience / get older. electric flight is not what it was 20 years ago.neither is scale modeling which were mostly the expert catagory until this thing called "fun scale " came along. there is a growing old time/ vintage RC movement flying the "classics" with modern radios /engines.