dsk - I would recommend that you try to find someone with a trainer (friend, instructor or fellow club member) to take you up on a buddy box a few times. Those few times will be priceless. After you guage your own performance, you can decide if you want to start flying that slow poke.

If it come naturally to you, you may use that slow poke as a first plane... but if you find it difficult to adjust to, I'd recommend a low cost trainer to start out with. It will definitely be worth your money!

That slow poke is a nice plane done up with PT-19 colors and stickers. I'd rather see it fly than die. Spend a few bucks on a trashed trainer to bash around... I'd cry if that slow poke met an untimely death regardless of what you paid for it!