I have an E-starter along with both of my brothers and my cousin. First of all congrates on buying one of the most fun to fly trainer planes out there. This is the plane I have used to teach my cousin and both my bros to fly on and they all are impressed, no matter if it is the 350, 400 or the Himax 2812 0805. We have flown the wings of the 350's with 8.4 batterys and you get very satisfacory flight times and performance. We will be launching a 400 this weekend for the first time with a 8.4 1100 mah battery (nimh) So I can let you know how this goes later. I was getting 10-12 min. flights on the 350 with a 8.4 750mah pack.

I have used both receivers and was very happy with both and never went out of range with either. If your gonna spend the money spend the few extra bucks and get the R6nII (I have flaperons and a camera mounted in my estarter and I had to upgrade the receiver.

I use the Gws and Hitec servos and both work fine so just pick your favorite color and go with that.

Your hitec transmiter should work with the GWS receiver but just verify with your LHS cause some are marked for futaba and hitec and the others are for JR and Airtronics I beleive.

I now have a Himax 2812 0805 and li-poly 1500 battery pack and castle creations speed controller (pheonix 25) And would Highly recommend this upgrade when the time is right for you. It is a direct bolt on and you get extreme performance with a 10/ 4.7 prop. My E-starter is very heavy compared to most (aluminum landing gear and big battery pack {losts of repairs/epoxy} bigger tires, camera) and it will still almost climb straight up. Without the exrtas it climbs amazingly.

Hope this is helpful later and ENJOY