hey all, went to a local Fun fly event the other day and I'm now hooked on learnig to fly. I have some experienes with electric helicopters and nitro rc cars so i dont think it would be to hard to start up. I have my good trusty Optic 6 radio and an HFS-04 reciever(its micro but its full range, single conversion, can I still use it?). Im thinking of getting some hitec standard servos as i am on a budget, as for the plane I think I'm going to get the Avistar ARF. does this plane come with gas tank and linkages included or do you have to buy them extra? Also I have a 5-cell rx pack of 2/3A cells 1050mah, will this work in an airplane or will it be too heavy? not enough power?(their .8oz per cell so 4ozfor the pack). As for the engine, theres the evo .46 or the super tiger .45 or i could spent more and get an OS engine. I know how to tune car nitro engines, how different is it from tuning airplane engines?

Oh, one more thing....what does it take to start one of these things? I'll get some fuel, got my glow starter from my nitro car, so just a fuel pump??.....I'm to cheap for an electric starter so can i just flick the prop or use a stick or something???
that just about does it i think..
thanks for the help

opps. just so i dont get any posts on how important it is to get an instructor, I WILL be going to the field and an instructor is going to be helping me
thanks