claccytim,
I'll try to clear up why they thought you might be planning on learning on the Spit. I doubt that we could count how many times a beginner comes on here (or shows up at our fields) saying they have just bought <insert super fast warbird model name here> and they want to learn to fly. Plus, they have spent <# of hours> on <insert RC flight simulator here> and they can land perfectly every time. For those of us that have been in the hobby for awhile it has become an automatic response to advise to not learn on the warbird. I will apologize for those that assumed you were going to learn on the warbird.