RE: just bought my spitfire!!
Luke this airplane can in no way be considered a "second" airplane for all the reason listed by Pauluk2 and a whole bunch more. This airplane is for much, much further down the line if you stay with the climb up the airmanship ladder.
Indeed that ladder in RC (just as it is in full scale) must be climbed one rung at a time or you be sitting yourself up for a fall (large amounts of totally wasted money and extreme frustration) while possibly never realizing your dreams of flight. No one can avoid this, no matter how good you think you are. The natural pilot is a myth!! No one is born with the knowledge of what is required or the intrinsic sense of feel that is required period. Yes there are ways to shorten the climb, things like sims and effective instruction combined with a planned regimen of that instruction are helpful 'But' agine Nobody can avoid rungs in the ladder or it will soon bite you right in the butt.
John