I would like to get into flying. I work at a hobby shop so I can pretty much get anything ordered I want, but this J-3 Cub is sitting on the shelves at the store and I really am sold on it. I've flown a Hobbyzone firebird type airplane once before (didn't crash) and play realflight simulator regularly at work during breaks. I know a simulator isn't going to substitute for real flying, but I've flown the trainers and went on to bigger scale planes (jets, B-17, P-51, etc.) and have crashed very few times and landed quite well. An experienced pilot taught me how to land with a killed engine on the simulator. I feel that 3 channels is about my limit for now. The Hobbico Superstar electric trainer is 4 channel and I'm not sure I want to jump in to a wooden ariplane just yet. Do you think the J-3 cub would be too much for an R/C car guy to handle? I'm hooked on the yellow piper paint scheme and scale looks, and I don't want a two-channel plane that I will outgrow in a short time.

Should I buy it, and give it a shot?? I work with some very good R/C pilots (one of them flies real planes) so getting help is not an issue.
Or am I getting in way over my head if I try to learn on that plane?[sm=drowning.gif]

Oh yeah, if and when i am proficient at flying do you think this plane would be too fast for a gymnasium?