My suggestion is to go to a local hobby shop and pick up a three channel ready to fly plane. These planes are pretty cheap, fun and pretty durable, and most important to the novice parts are easy to get. I started with a parkzone Decathlon. Great plane with a GWS, I believe 9x7 prop, the stock prop is crap. The decathlon comes with every thing, including raido and battery, and was not expensive. This way you can test out the hobby w/o breaking the wallet, also if you decide it's not for you then your not out a lot of money.