Hi all. Besides the help of a good instructor (to train me on my Avistar), would an electric trainer be a good plane practice on? I would use this to practice on my own at a park and such. The other day I purchased a [link=http://www.flyzoneplanes.com/airplanes/hcaa1960-index.html]Red Hawk[/link] from Flyzone to play around with. Now, I never soloed with my new Avistar trainer, but I did decide to take the much slower Red Hawk to the park and give it a whirl. With a safe distance between myself and any obstruction, I throttled up and threw her to the wind. As I climbed out I realized how quick even an inexpensive electric could be. I didn't loose the plane, but I did get disoriented for a few seconds. I then was able to appreciate the need for instruction before trying out my gas (and much more expensive) model. I was able to solo and keep acceptable control of this very light model, with out crashing or buzzing myself.
Because this airplane has a 3 channel radio (throttle, elevons), will this help me with basic orientation while in flight? I know it will respond differently from faster models, but is this a good training tool?