Building an ARF is incredibly easy. Building kits is just as easy, there is nothing that is actually hard. It's just time consuming, but in a good way! Mounting the engine takes 5 minutes tops...I highly recommend you build a kit, with the ARF next. I don't like recommending the RTF's, but they are ok. There are a lot of them now from Hangar 9 and Thunder Tiger as well.

briankenney91, you sure it's got the .40? I've flown 5-10 of them and there is no chance of them hovering. They weigh over 5 lbs and it would be a workout for a BB .46 to hover it. There is no chance of that LA taking it vertical... The Avistar will do a decent spin and it will also KE. Knife edge has some bad coupling, but you would expect that from a trainer. The Avistar is one of my favorite airplanes...