Foamies fly way easier but you can use the skills you acquire and apply them to flying bigger planes to. I think part of the reason that they're easier is because if you crash it your out like 20-50 bucks instead of like 600-1000. That's a big part of it. But with small foam airplanes you can achieve such a tremendous power to weight ratio that it makes a lot of things easier. Plus since you can't fly them in wind you don't and therefore you have no wind gusts or change of direction so the conditions are always perfect. Flying a foamie in more than 5k of wind is probably not a good idea ( depending on what type it is, some can handle more and some less )