RE: Trainer or not?
My instructor, who flies several planes, including a Yak 54 that is larger than 60 size just bought an 40 ARF trainer (to convert to a float plane just for fun) from texasrcplanes.com for $55 (half price overstock sale) and told me that it's really nice. He said "you can't beat it for the price". I just bought a low wing 40 ARF from the same place and it is nice. There are some problems with the instructions, but the son of the company owner just put the same plane together and has sent me some pics and advice to help with some of the instruction manual problems.