The nexstar is a great plane I learned on the nexstar.. but the money.... a little too much when you can get some more trainers and get the same thing out of them if not more... the nexstar comes with all this crap that you DO NOT even need or WANT to use, I never even put them on and unplugged the sensor thing. now that I bought an avistar just to mess around with I would have much rather trained on that plane.. i would recomment both though they're awesome.. the avistar will progress with you though a lot more than the nexstar