Yup the manuals are simply awful.

You should put together at least one or two other ARF's before you tackle this plane, preferably those with GREAT instructions and included tips and hints.

You will run into a number of things which you'll have no idea what to do, and it's basically up to you do determine how you want to go about these things.

If you have someone available to you with a good bit of assembly experience you should be fine.

Once you are comfortable enough with ARF's that all you care about is the C.G. and recommended throws, you are ready for Asian ARF's.

Most Asian arf's have poorly translated ( TRANSLATED? WHAT TRANSLATION? ) manuals.

The particular CMP plane you are looking at is fairly nice though, particularly considering it's price.