Thank you all!! Very helpful informatoin. I am going to go with the GP Extra 300. I was leaning that way because I like the look of the plane and the instruction manual is already downloaded on my laptop. I will most likely put a 46 in it because I am not an aggresive flyer yet. By the time I get it built I think my flying skills should be ok. I am focusing on doing more landings and getting into the repeatable pattern that Dave describes. We have had 20 mph cross winds recently and I have been able to land in those so I must be progressing.

Anyway thanks for the help. I will be looking at the many build threads to see what I can learn and then may post myself - from the standpoint of a someone relatively new.

thanks

John