Hello, I was looking for suggesstions on what would be a good first plane. I really dont have anyone i know to help me in my area but if anyone in gilbert/pheonix area would love to help it would be great. I am actually an aerospace engineer student at ASU. I was wondering what you all would reccommend as a good beginner plane. As a college student i am obviously poor as hell so i do want to limit how much i spend on my first plane. I would love to learn on a glow plane but i doubt that is in my price range of about 200$ max if a glow 150 max if electric. I am pretty good with circuitry and do have some experience putting model rockets together from my past although it was a while ago i built them. I could probably build a ARF model myself if i had to but most of the ones i find need an expensive remote control. I am pretty good with electronics and eventually want to build a camera that sends a signal to an lcd screen so i can watch where i am flying and record it this is something else completely so i would like this to be a test plane for that once i get better at flying. I was also wondering about the building aspects of them. Why arent any of the planes built out of aluminum sheeting. I would think that would be one of the easiest materials to use that can stand a good beating granted you need some better tools then most people have lying around to get the angles and bends right. Anyways what do you all reccommend for a good trainer that is reasonably priced. I was actually looking at the http://www.hobbyzone.com/rc_planes_h...rd_freedom.htm it has plenty of power and a xport spot means it was built to be able to handle a little extra weight so i can use that area for my camera circuitry when i built it.