THIS IS A WARNING TO NOVICE FLYER'S WANTING TO BUY A SCALE, AILERON OR ANY OTHER NON BEGGINER TRAINER.
A long read but it should be helpful when trying to pick a first plane.
I am here to tell you my story.

I am brand new to the hobby of rc flight. At first I watched alot of videos and played a bit of the real flight demo on my keyboard.

Eventually I wanted to buy my first plane. Having played the sim and watched all the videos I was starting to think oh this should not be hard to get the hang of.

I decided to go against the advice of everyone and get a plane with ailerons. The parkzone fw-190. BIG MISTAKE

I put the plane together but had to wait till the next day to fly it. The sun had already set.

I got up bright and early the next day to fly it I was super excited. I took my dad along for the ride. Plus I need some help launching it.

Well the launch failed the first and second time but worked the third.
My plane was off.... At at a much higher speed then I had expected it, boy could that thing climb.
All of a sudden I got very afraid of having this plane fly away on me or go to high so i decided to level it out and turn it. It was actually still fairly low maybe the size of a 4 level condo.

I gently turned it left and it looked awesome against the blue sky like a real plane.

Then it picked up a bit to much speed for my likeing so i wanted to throtthle it down and I did that I droped it to idle. The plane was fairly tilted at this moment it was almost perpindicular to the ground so it dived. I pancked and went to full throthle. and I also tried to level the plane out with the controls.

Well the plane was facing me and in a rush of adrenaline and no experience I completely forgot that my controls were reversed.

In horror I watched as my plane slammed into the ground at full throthle.

I ran over to it hoping the snow on the ground cushioned it from damage.
I was int so lucky the fuselage broke in half and the back end completely tore off.
It was only held onto by the control lines.

The plane is currently sitting in my basement waiting for a new fuselage on order to come in.

When it does I am hoping I will be able to rebuild the plane with the new fuselage but it does not look to easy.
Then I am going to let the plane sit till I am fully capable of flying a plane with ailerons that is fairly fast.

I went out the next day and purchased a Hobby Zone AeroBird Challenger having herd good things about it.

Take it from me flying is alot harder then it looks. The pro's make it looks simple but you will quickly find it not to be.

I had my first successful flight with my Challenger today and it was alot more rewarding then trying to fly my fw-190.
It was alot slower and easier to handle with out the ailerons. Giving me more time to react to situations. The only trouble i had was landing it but I did int do that heading into the wind. Because I did not know I should and because my engine cut out so I could only glide. But Hey I did 3 loops today and that was awesome.

I would recommend this plane as a first time plane to any beginner just don't fly it in wind over 5mp/h It may not look cool but it will help you learn and have fun at the same time, and isint that the whole reason you want to get into the hobby, to have some fun?

P.S Please excuse any incorrect terminology that I have used here in referring to the plane or flying I have only been "in" the hobby for about 2 weeks so I am still trying to take everything in.