2nd plane I'd recommend the four star. I moved over from electrics about 7 years ago and the four star 60 was my first glow plane. Easy to fly, land and is as aerobatic as I would ever need it to be. I matched mine up with a Thunder Tiger .91FS swinging a 14x6 APC.

A buddy of mine had an MDS .78 which had a lot of problems. He changed out the carb due to it running poorly on the stock one. After many kinks being ironed out, it ran fine.

Best of luck,