Welcome Bradley, You do know your Dad has started you off ona path of addiction comparable to haroin? A lot of us have more planes than we can reasonably fly there is this enzyme in our brains that triggers a reaction when we see a plane we don't have that forces us to pull that little plastic card out of our wallets.

All of the advice you have recieved is good. Especially the "get with an instructor at the local club" advice. A lot of people get a plane and try to fly it themselves the first time and watch $400 burn in in less than 15 seconds. Then they quit and never really learn to fly. The instructor will save your plane from certain doom no less than 20 times while you are learning. Replacing an airframe, assuming all the equipment and servos survive the crash, will cost about $100. So an instructor will save you at least $2000.