A cub is an excellent first kit and first scale plane. I wouldn't hesitate a bit, I just finished my fourth cub, GP 60, and my first kit was a GP 40 cub years ago. The point of building and flying being separate entities is a resent phenomenon. I got into this hobby just as ARF were coming into the light over a decade ago and computer radio were stating to become reasonably affordable, now there dirt cheap. Building is what kept me in this hobby. I actually got pretty board with flying after a couple years when is became almost brainless, but building and racing kept my interest going and kept things interesting. You really begin to learn how the models functions and the fundamentals of flight really start making sense once you've built a couple models. The only problem I find with building is you get more attatched to kits you build, so if you loose one it hurts a little bit. Hell most of my kits have enough blood on them they'er almost in relation