Hey guys.

Heres the quick version. Im the 21 year old college engineering student. My girlfriend and I room mate with a family that is our best friends. The husband and I were really close friends from a previous job and our respective significant others became close friends by yelling at us (what a concept!). Anyway they have 2 children that my girlfriend and I are like aunt and uncle to. They both love my hobby but the older boy really loves it. Older boy is just turning 11. but more than likely due to a rough past has some maturety and decision making problems, he lost his birth father in a motorcycle accident when he was 1. I would love to pass my hobby to him and thats all he wants for his birthday at the end of the month. But there of course there are differnt options and different negatives with each path.

Zach is his name and he has some focusing issues especially with course work at school, but when it comes to legos the boy will build and build, which is why i thought maybe a kit we could build together. But I have some trust issues with undertaking a build like that with him (he has pinched sharp objects in the past and they wind up in the wrong places, no one ever been hurt, but that gives me pause to even work with those near him even if I use all the sharp tools).

As much as the boy likes my glow planes I am leaning towards electric, for simplicity and also when Im not there and he's learned to fly there are parks right near the apartment complex where the nearest place to fly glow is 20-30 min drive. But I started on a alpha 40 and gone up and my only electric experience is with edf's and a parkzone sukhoi. I was thinking of the super cub as its always recommended. but if he has me to buddy box off of Id rather him start with a true 4 channel plane.

And lastly i have spektrum, futaba, and old JR fm transmitters, what should I look for buddy box equipment. will any of my transmitters be buddy box-able (?) with any of those RTF packages?

Thanks for any pointers.