Well I have a slightly different look on getting a beginner plane. About 10ish years ago I tried flying. I would have been early teens and didn't have a clue what I was doing. I built a slow stick with the center of gravity WAY too far forward and within two packs had the nose jammed into the ground more times than I wanted to count and destroyed the bird. Now its time for round two.

Things have came a long way since then. The one good thing I did then was buy a decent for the time 6 channel FM computer radio. It is an old Futaba 6EXA radio which is far enough to fly out in the boonies where I live. The other benefit I have now is that I have played around with an eflite cx2 and mcx which gives me the LP5DSM controller. Nothing special but its DSM. I still have all the micro servos from the slow stick and they are in good shape. I have the micro receiver as well.

I have put a lot of simulator time in trying to learn single rotor helis. When I get frustrated with them I load a few of the piper cub models and play with them. I have become fairly proficient flying them and am ready to try one out. So having a decent FM radio and a DSM radio what ARF would you start with? I would like something with aileron controls as I think I would get bored before too long if it were only a 3 channel. Not really looking for 3d but I want more than rudder. I have plenty of room but will be doing this on my own without someone on a buddy box. Any suggestions for a radioless setup either pnp or bnf that will be easy enough for someone with a bit of sim time but still have 4 channel control? I know I can dial things very conservative with the 6EXA to keep me out of too much trouble.