would this be a good next step up from a hobbico sky fly an 120 hours g3.5 training http://www.horizonhobby.com/Products...ProdId=HAN1700 what is good and bad about the plane in general?

The Super Stick .40 ARF is terrific flying airframe and a good value for the money. It will be a lot faster than the Sky Fly that you've been practicing with.

I think if you work with a club instructor, you should enjoy great success with this plane.

You can't go wrong with a Stick.

Use very low rates or it will eat you for lunch and splatter itself, and an additional $200 worth of engine, servos and receiver, into tiny, tiny pieces. This is not a Big Stik or an Ugly Stik. This is something hotter.

If you've never seen a plane roll five times in a second you can't appreciate how disorienting that is for a new pilot. These are wonderful planes, but not the place to first learn about ailerons without an iinstructor at your elbow or, better still, on the other end of a buddy cable.

PS - do you know how or what to look for and listen for with aileron flutter to know whether you're in trouble or not with a large-control-surface model like this?