My brother and nephew(12yrs old) no instructer trained with hoobico nexterstars which you can get from tower hobbies (379.00), these plane were impresive. I myself learned on a .40 size bigstik which I would not recommend it was faster than i thought for learning. One of the biggest things I learned the hard way is to pay close attention to equiptment checks before and between flights. First ever flight went out with experienced pilot he took it off for me plane flew great gave the controls to me I got nervous gave the controler back did 2 more turns heard big clunk motor died and hanging from throttle control rod. I'm 3 years into this now still learnig everyday good luck its a fun sport to do with the family my father,brother,nephew,and I fly just about every weekend morning in the summer, winter gets to be long up her gives you time to build or rebuild.