i have a hobbico sky fly and a TON of G3.5 training. i could get the hobbico avistar as my next plane right?

I would say that it depends if you plan on getting an instructor, if you are then by all means go for it. With the realflight and sky fly experience you might make it (unlikely). Although g3 doesn't teach you how to start and tune an engine or set up a radio.

Austin

Sure you can. But as acarter put it you still may not be able to fly it on your own... Please get help from an experienced R/C pilot. It is well worth it.

In the long run...it will be much cheaper and you will spend much less time repairing if you get someone to teach you.

What they said,
heres why The computer planes are always in perfect condition (so will yours after the instructer checks it out)
simulator planes are always perfectly balanced ( your instructer will check that also)
sim motors run like a top in all conditions and are perfectly broken in ( yep see instructer here too)
Wind is often not set on the computer even if possible (your instructer will tell you all kinds of stuff about how wind effects your plane)
Your instructer will tell you how well your doin and your computer may do that also but the computer won't tell you if your deodorant works after your first near crash!LOL

You'll be okay with an avistar as a trainer.
Get an instructor like everybody suggested.
Put stripes, checkers on the bottom to make it more visiable.

Once you get use to it. you'll want more roll ability. The avistar roll
a little bit more becuase it dosn't have flat bottom airfoil.
I still had to seal the hinge gap.

I actually converted mine to a tail grager becuase of my landing field..it's not paved
and there's soft spots. The nose gear digs even after a good landing.
That dosn't happens in a sim.lol

It's not a floater, floater like a senior kadet, but it's gental.

If you want a more success rate of getting you past this stage get a duraplane.
I crashed that thing so many times, into fences ,trees .
leaning how to land , approches, touch and go.
It's not the pretties thing in the world ,but it was an excellent tool.
Plus it didn't get toss around in the cross wind as much.

You're going to crash eventaully, but that water sprout thing of roo I didn't have
to fix after every crash.

You forgot one other thing. The transmitter you take to the field doesn't have that red reset button!!

That's why I'm always unconsciously squeezing my TX at the field!