ORIGINAL: Charlie P.
He will never go to an airfield and considers learning to fly the plane himself to be half of the fun of getting one.
As long as he considers repair and replacement with much down-time the other half of the fun he'll be OK.
I like the RCM 40 Trainer as a good ARF. Don't know from electrics.
I disagree. I taught myself how to fly. You just have to pic the right planes with the right equipment and set it up correctly. I feel the most difficult thing about learning to fly yourself is there is NO place to sufficiently take off and land. I learned on a 2 lane road. When i fiinally moved to a designated flying field with a huge runway it was quite the difference.