For the avatar(small pic under yer name) you set that up in your profile, click the link at the top of the page and take it from there.

I really liked my Kadet, had 2 of them over the years actually. The version that Sig sells nowadays is the Kadet MK II and is a redesign of the original, which is what you have BTW. They added ailerons and swept the vertical tail back, did away with the rounded abs plastic wingtips, none of those changes really made it a better flyer. They also did away with the clear widshield and it's now all carved from wood blocks, it's stronger but a lot more work to build. They also added aluminum main gear but I really liked the wire gear better

The airplane is VERY easy to fly but with a .40 in the nose it has a tendancy to need a lot of trimming because it will climb constantly with more than half throttle applied. This is actually built into the design and the prevailing theory at the time in 1980 was that if you had altitude and got in trouble you could simply throttle back and let go of the sticks and the model would right itself and return to straight and level. In all honesty I think the only way that would really work is if you had the plane at a very high altitude in the first place. Since it would be so high and hard to see it would tend to produce the very situation that the the designed in features were suppossed to help correct, namely over controlling the model usually due to disorientation.

I have found that most people can turn the plane over to an instructor who will look the plane over for warps, proper balance and general set up points and then if all is well he will test fly it, trim it out and then allow the student to give it a go. This whole process takes less than an hour if the instructor has some experience. Most of the people I have helped out took 3-4 flights to get the hang of it. After that it's a matter of smoothing out the bad habits and honing their abilities.

The plane looks great and the color scheme should be pretty visible in the air at a distance, which will help a lot for your learning curve.

Have fun!