Nitohollic, that statement says a whole lot about you. You are a very experienced car driver.
That is good as you probably know a lot about the glow engine. SUPER! Great way to start.

OTOH you have a lot to learn reference the term L-Cl x1/2 (Vsquared x WA x air-mass-density) as simple term stating that lift is equal to the Coeficient of lift,
times 1/2 of the Velocity squared times wing area (or any item where air flows around it) times air mass density. This lack of understanding makes more scattered aircraft parts than anything I know of.

You do cars, real and model. How do you steer a curve. You hold the pressure on the wheel and keep the car turning. How do you do it in an airplane? Very differently!
You pressure the stick/yoke, ROLL to a desired bank ANGLE, back to neutral or whatever it takes to maintain the desired bank angle. Then you roll opposite to level a wing as you arrive at the desired heading. In a car, the car is on the ground (if not then all is simply academic ) so when you arrive at the desired heading you just steer back. In the airplane, While in the bank and turning you have to hold some amount of back pressure to have some up-elevator to hold an increased angle-of-attack for the wing to maintain lift to maintain altitude. This is a basic new learning curve. Definitely there are those that do it almost immediately but some take a long time.

A trimmed airplane at a given speed will descend if the power is retarded, or climb if the power is increased. Making a banked turn onto final approach can be a real killer for newbies. Overbanking is a normal thing. The nose drops, then he tries to pull it up without reducing the bank and it rolls in tighter until new pilot-to-be becomes disoriented. Now it does not require anywhere near a "million pieces" for the airplane to metamorphosis into a pile of junk or at best an end to that day's flying. BTDT!

Therefore the techniques of keeping the flying machine within the realms of aerial flight are a tad more complicated, yet not really difficult, to learn than a ground-based vehicle. At this point I AM SURE YOU COULD MAKE AN RC TRUCK perform things that I have no clue about. The 3D RCer can do what I have no clue about. When I learned RC, I said I would never do with an RC airplane anything I never did in a real airplane, but I have done one RC thing and that is an outside loop. Never did that in a Jet!. If asking about a crash, yep lots of them in RC. Only one in real life, but I was able to walk walk away from it.

Therefore, nitroholic, I suggest you invest in one of Tower or Great "Pains" Trainers, Mark II or the other one almost just like it, and a Thunder Tiger 40 -42-46. The TT is the most easy and reliable engine I have owned in a long time. Years ago when Super Tiger was made in Italy by Italians, it was the easy one. Great Planes fixed that to make all except the .51 and .75 total headaches. I have a bunch of each ST size, NIB, that I haven't fixed yet.

Learn the basics then step up to symetrical wings etc. It won't take you long. Then that Trainer wnd TT can be relegated to your Fun Fly machine. You will like those days that you can simply spend hours doing all kinds of approaches and landings with it. When a club has a Fun Fly, the trainer is great for chasing balloons, Touch-and-go in the box, Limbos, etc.. I have one that my grandson soloed with 5 years ago. It has been through the ringer with my students and my competition fun flys. Still going with a ST 40 that I Fixed. Several years ago, a student was doing well. I lulled a tad and he, at a mid altitude rolled upside down, pulled back hard, the wing sheared off, and straight into the earth. THE EARTH WON!
I fixed it! Still flying.

Learning to fly well is progressive. I know a number of guys that quit this wonderful sport simply because those beautiful and overpowered models, ".... just wouldn't fly!"
They lost out simply because they couldn't fly it. With a little less self-importance in mind, they could now be the great pilots they wanted to be.

Oh yeah it'll take a while to learn this inside and out.I will though.Yeah i have yrs of running,rebuilding nitro,gas experience.Almost every r/c car truck i had was nitro.I had a Miss Vegas Duece .18 boat to,i wanted to try that.I did, sold it.That wasn't a fun hobby the boat.I never swam in that cold of water in my lifelol.So it's time to go airborne,tired of land r/c.I do miss my traxxas jato 3.3,but they aren't that expensive on ebay.Get another one of them easy.

The other really great thing you have to look forward to in this hobby, should you choose to, is specializing. There's a niche for the speed freaks (pylon racing), the OCD artist types (scale modeling), the precision flyers (pattern), the show offs (IMAC and 3D), the history buffs (Scale modeling), as well as plenty of guys who just like to watch their creations fly (all of us!).

Yes i seen one 1 time i went to the field with my brother.Them things are CRAZY fast.That was wild.Yup.