I would recommend a ugly stick 60. It flies true and straight. It goes where you point it. But you will crash it.

But I am now teaching a buddy of mine how to fly and he has been learning on a Extra EZ. Which I will say is an excellent trainer. He was very successful with this plane. But one day he decided to go flying without help and lost control and crashed it. Well after that he got another one along with a Ugly Stick 60. We put both of them together and got both going. He was determined that he could fly the stick 60. I got it up and let him take control and he flew it pretty well. But he did say that it was way more sensitive and more touchy and this made him nervous. To me it just flew better but in the hands of a beginner it can be a handful.

He practiced low passes over and over then tried to land. He could not get it lined up straight and smooth to land no matter how many times he tried. Just the fact it is not a trainer and it flies differently.

So we went back to the trainer again and put some hours on it. So guess what I am saying that yes you may be able to FLY the more advanced plane. But when it comes down to it probably will not have much understanding on the control of it. That is why trainers are important to learn on. They fly much more forgiving and allow you to get accustomed to the characteristics of a RC plane. You need to first build up your skills on how to and not to do things. Meaning how to approach a landing and how not to for example. It is not just a matter of flying around and then landing.

Now if you jumped right into the stick and went to fly and made say a turn and it say stalled to the right when you was 6' from the ground coming at you. Would you know how to recover from this? The plane would be able to recover from this but would the flier be able to? Probably not. now say you already had learned how to fly a trainer inside and out and knew how to react to this. Then yes you could probably save it. Just in a more advance plane they react a lot more quickly and more touchy. In the case of being only 6' from the ground this would not be something you would be wanting to learning in.



But if you insist of of learning in a advanced, cool, fast looking plane. Go for it. Just make sure you take a picture of it before you go flying it.