Hi Surjer,

As planes get bigger their weight goes up alarmingly quickly and being heavier the crash results tend to get worse. 50" on a scale plane is pretty big for a beginner training themselves.

Still - if that's what you intend to do people say the Multiplex Magister is a pretty good trainer. It's a bit bigger than you asked for - around 60", weight in at 5.5 lbs. Probably too big to fly at the park, and you'll need to do some fancy footwork on batterys - joining 2 3s high volume packs is probably the cheapest way to get good flight time.

However, the 40" mini magistar (smaller brother of the plane above) might be a great plane. A little smaller than what you asked for, but definitely a park flyer, ahs ailerons, looks like a real plane, is built of tough elapor foam:

http://www.multiplexusa.com/models/P...rs/minimag.htm

Cheers,
Oz.