Ok its my turn to put in my two cents about the twist.

(1) Can it be your first plane ...Yes (If you have someone who knows how to fly and you trust helps you with it eg. r/c club If you don't have the help and you think you have some amazing talents for Flying R/C or you are a Actual Real life size Pilot and think you can fly because you know all the principles....Guess again. eg. I personally know Real life Pilots and they have tried to fly my planes on a Trainer cord and they do "ok" but for the most part after the first 30 sec's or so they are in as much trouble as most new pilots it just takes a "little" longer.

(2) I tried to learn to fly twice on my own and did I succeed yes I did "SUCK-ceed But that was after much fixing and time spent that can certainly be much better spent flying if you get a instructor I was young and we didn't have a r/c field for 100 miles. After my second attempt I quite until I was older (26yrs) and a buddy got into it and he introduced me to the club he joined. Much much more fun still had crashes once I went solo but they were much much less frequent.

Now flying is awesome and all because I don't have to think nearly as much when landing and on take-off. Actually landings an take-offs are fun and a pasttime. try to get the perfect takeoff with the trims only and no outer inputs from the controls. It's cool to just throttle up and see the plane takeoff at a nice slow striaght climb, with no other inputs.

I moved to a larger city and had not touched the sticks for quite some time and when I got the bug for the 4th time I was 30yrs old and a little bit rusty on the sticks. My old hobby store pal who taught me to fly recommended I try electrics and at first I thought he was nuts but I took his advice and you know what.....I can only wish that "Everyone Who wants to learn this hobby on there own" This only Applys to the ones of you that want to Learn on your own. Buy this plane and a set of controls from your local hobby store and you will still have a harder time than if you had an instructor but the plane flys slower than gas giving you alot more time to react and is much easier to fix. (trust me this is Handy on your first plane. )The plane that wins the prise for best electric firsttime plane for the first time pilot is THE GWS E-STARTER

I flew wings off this plane and my 2 brothers 1 cousin and and 3 friends all enjoy flying the e-starter I have since put a brushless engine on mine and it is a riot for your fisrt plane TRUST ME

I now fly gas and electrics and It is the way a hobby should be FUN!

Feel free to email me any questions you might have about the E-starter at [email protected] (please put "Estarter" for the subject)

Bottom line LEARN TO FLY THEN FLY BUT ....If you must (cause there is noone to teach you or you just want to do it on your own use the estarter cause it is a lot easyer to glue. I could usually get mine goin in an hour after a crash with five min. apoxy and a new prop.

Sorry if I sound Preachy or offend anyone who has learned to fly on there own just trying to help the first timer

LATER AND ENJOY ALL