Best to visit an RC club first. You will learn more in an hour with a club member than 6 months of reading about how things are. Glow and electric differences. Glow planes in general have good power available if needed and the planes are usually between 5-7 lbs. This means that you can take off from a grass runway and still train if the winds come up a bit. After a 10 minute flight on a glow plane you refuel and you are ready to go again. Glow planes usually have a 60" to 70" wing span and a 50" long fuselage which makes the plane fairly easy to see. 6 ten minute flights are considered a standard days training due to the time on the Transmitter and receiver batterys. Usually your nerves are shot by then anyway. Electric planes are smaller and lighter. This makes them harder to see and can be blown around if the winds come up. The power is miminal on most e powered trainers which means some can not get them selves off a grass runway. Flight time on standard set ups means that your flight time will probaly be between 6-8 minutes. Then the prop stops turning and you have to land by gliding it in. Now you have to remove the battery pack and put it on a charger or replace the pack with a charged pack that is ready to go. If you go this route you will need 6 fully charged battery packs to take to the field. Then when you get home you will need to recharge all the packs as well as your transmitter battery before the next days flying. Better mark the packs so that you know which ones are charged and which ones are waiting! Hope this helps. [8D]