My little brother learned to fly on G2. He soloed on his second flight on my Avistar. So, if you have a simulator I would say to go with the Avistar. The only problems he had was getting used to tracking the model plane rather than staring into the center of the computer screen. After about 20 flights on the Avistar, he soloed on my ModelTech .25 size Me-109 with a 40 on it.