If you dont have a flight sim, I would get one. It help me a lot just to know what the stick inputs need to be and to be able to practice it over and over again.. I still get a little nervous when I try something new but I know what to expect and how to react if it goes wrong. I am fairly new to flying but my second plane I built from a kit and I love it because it has a nice balance between pulling of some good aerobatics and sport flying is the GP RV-4 40 size with .72 Saito on it. I cannot do 3D stuff but it will loop, roll, split s, hammerhead, the scale moves all day long.