Ditto on that.

Get some 6mm foam, and use some plans to build a 6mm depron extra 300 or edge 540 or something, you can get plans from 3dfoamy.com
Then put a decent brushless motor like the BP21 from balsapr.com on the front of it.


Since you've been flying for a while now, it should be easy for you to get the hang of flying it, now all you need to do is practice the 3D maneuvers.

The advantage to using 6mm foam is
1. Its much more durable than 3mm foam
2. When it breaks, it normally breaks clean, and can be CA'd back together easily.

I have a 6mm plane that I flew full throttle into a chain link fence. 10 min later it was flying again, and you could barely tell it was ever broken. Dont worry about crashing. Its just part of learning. The best part about using 6mm foam to build your own planes, is that you can just build another one if you smash one up, plus you will get valuable learning without spending tons of money on kits.

Good luck.