RE: beginner plane purchase logic
I'll concur with the last posts, I have moved up to more advanced glow planes, but I stll keep my Super cub charged and ready cause I can fly it just about anywhere anytime,its still a lot of fun, and its good for teaching other people with. But if you are concerned about money and future planes, you can sell the Super cub very quickly if you want to and use the money to buy radio equipment for your next plane. The Super Cub is very popular and I haven't seen any on e-bay that didn't sell unless the price or shipping was unreasonable.(you can expect to sell a good used Super cub for $80 to $120 and possibly more depending on how many batteries and spare parts go with it, and shipping cost should be $20 to $40 ups or usps,) You could sell it for $80 to $120 and this would be more than enough to buy a good used Futaba 4vf or similar 72mhz radio system to use on a glow powered trainer or kit plane. People are selling a lot of these systems cheap on e-bay because they are switching over to 2.4ghz systems. The 72mh systems will be fine for you for a long time. My advice, go ahead and buy the Super Cub to learn with, then decide later weather to keep it, upgrade it, or sell it!