Brian,
I guess one question that should be asked is have you flown before?? If not, this definitely isn't a plane to try on.

These planes from CMP (as well as numerous others that sell them same planes under different names) are notorious for having pathetic instructions. Most of the time the instructions are nothing more than 3 or 4 pictures and very little text. This is pretty common for these ARF's coming from China.

Ken