Yes, you can learn on that type of plane. Depending on WHAT this plane is, the learning will range from slightly more difficult to "Oh My God, what have I gotten myself into."

I STRONGLY suggest going to your flying field/local club and do the following:

1. Get an instructor. The lessons are free. The first flight of someone trying to teach themselves to fly is typically less than 30 seconds and usually results in damage to the plane and/or equipment on board.

2. Find out what BRAND of radio is being used by the MAJORITY of the members and what the LEAST USED channels are.

3. When you purchase your radio, get the brand used by the majority of the members. The manuals are good, but a live person with knowledge/experience of your brand is better WHEN (not if ) a question/problem comes up. By getting the radio on one of the least used channels you will minimize your waiting time for the channel to clear so you can fly.

The plane is usually one of the cheapest parts of learning how to fly (usually an ARF trainer is about $100 ). The expensive stuff is the radio and occasionally the engine.

I would STRONGLY suggest getting a 6 channel (or more ) COMPUTER radio and a USER FRIENDLY ball bearing engine. OS AX, Thunder Tiger PRO and Evolution engines are very user friendly. By user friendly, I mean that 99%+ are going to run well right out of the box. There are a lot of good engines out there, HOWEVER, many of them require "fiddeling with" to get to run properly.

I suggest staying away from the RTFs as the radio is typically a base level 4 channel radio and the engines are USUALLY a bushed bearing 40 engine. The power on these engines range from marginal to OK FOR THE TRAINER, but are rarely useable in a second plane due to lack of power.

Your radio equipment for the boats should not be used as it is not on the 72 mhz band (aircraft band )

Hope this helps.