I've been teaching RC since 95. I had one season where I got to switch back and forth between my favorite trainer the LT40 and a guy with the Aircore trainer. The aircore trainer needed to be a model that you could crash and survive. It was too heavy and too fast. The AVERAGE novice did not have the reaction time to keep up with it.

I've had two Aircore F-16s, their one design that you could NOT pull the "power package" out, but they are fun knock around sport planes. I've replace the last one with a Sky Raider II arf as my knocker of choice.

And for the totaly newbie to modeling, unless you're a SPAD freak, you have to learn building (some of them awkward) techniques that you'll never use again.

MTC YMMV
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