I gonna go w/ everyone else here and suggest something foam. I started out on a PKZ Decathlon, but if you have sim experience then you could go 4 channel, my second plane was an eflite P-47, which I crashed a few times but now have the hang of it. Being a fellow pilot, though only a private working on insturment, I do have to tell you that the RC plane is so much harder to fly than the real thing, but still fun.