Well I guess I'll go ahead & be the bad guy, the one that has to tell you these aren't beginner planes & that you should be thinking about a highwing trainer type plane & an instructor. The Flat-outs are a nice series of Foamies, that are all basically intended for 3D flying which comes later down the road after we have learned to fly. You have a nice Radio, I just bought the 6102 myself w/standard size digital servos and the R700 reciever.

Starting out with a 3D Foamie, would be kind of like never learning to walk & then trying to run a marathon race! I know this isn't what you wanted to hear, but unfortunately my brother it is the truth. I've been there & crashed that!

I gather from your mention of wanting an electric that you can fly in as small an area as a ball field. Does this mean you have no interest what-so-ever in joining a club, but just want to be able to parkfly?? If we knew the answer to that ?? we could better assist you. Because the best way to learn to fly RC is to 1st. Join the AMA, 2nd. Find your local club & go meet some ppl there, get hooked up with one of their instructors (club instruction is free), 3rd. Get a High-wing Trainer to learn on. While I realize they aren't the cool looking kind of plane that most of us want to fly, the Trainer will be a handfull, & without proper instruction & a buddy box so the instructor can save your plane for you, you will most certainly crash it. Usually within the first fews seconds after lift off, if not on the runway itself before you ever even get it off the ground.

If in deed it is just parkflying you are interested in there are other models that will be alot easier to fly than a Flatout. Even then without some kind of proper training by an experienced RC Pilot, you will more than likely crash it.

Give us a little more info as to where you really want to get to within the Hobby & we will help you all we can, sorry for the bad news, but stay with us it's gets much better if we have the patience to learn. Then you will be hooked on the greatest Hobby/Desease I know of.