i love my aerobird...the firebird commander is a better training plane, I had on of those and I flew it in wind...never seen again, I had extra batteries for it and they work in my aerobird, so I usually get to fly about 1 and a half to two hours when I get to the field

Also, take it off of the 'trainer mode', all that does for me is seem to help me crash more because you dont have ful control of it
the best pplace to fly is somewhere wide open, the wings are pretty fragile