A bigstick 60 or the 40 is an awesome plane to learn on, anyone that wants to fly nitro or gas planes i always tell them not to go electric as i spend over 300 dollar in a su-31 i believe it was but of course that was with the extra battery, one guy at our field flies nothing but electric's and that is great a p 51 mustang flies so nice with 5000 batteries two of them for 600 dollars just for the batteries, for a ten minute flight is not for my pocket book, but there is an older guy at the field that flies all electrics airplanes that he builds himself and makes the plans to do so and he gets so much time out of a battery, it all comes down to knowing all about the system and what to use, most people do not understand the electric setup, good luck which ever plane you choose.