RE: Global Freestyle ARF suitable for beginning pattern?
You will like it, its a great plane. No need to add tri stock to landing plate, its plenty strong. This plane can be flown pretty fast, but first make sure to seal thos surfaces to prevent flutter. Yes, big rudder=very good knife edge flight. One of my favorite maneuvers is the ke loops, ke figure eights, ke box loop, ke cuban 8 (for lack of a better description). Of course none of this will be done in pattern.
One thing you may want to change out is the landing gear. I believe they are made for a 25 sized plane, pretty flimsy too. They placed the plane so low to the ground it would take a lot of elevator to rotate.
You will like the 55 much better....