Top Race Remote Control Airplane - RC Plane 3 Channel Battery-Powered - Radio Control Airplanes for Adults and Kids 8-12 - Easter Gift Toy - Easy to Control Electric Planes with Propeller Saver

I got a similar looking trainer when I was maybe 12 years old and couldn't control the thing for the life of me. after a few very short out of control flights, it was done for.This trainer is surprisingly easy to fly. With the beginner setting, it's impossible to turn too hard. As long as you are gentle with the throttle, you will easily be able to control it. After 1 flight, I switched to intermediate and it was still pretty easy to control. I couple of flights later, I switched to advanced mid flight once I thought I had enough altitude for error and immediately did a nose dive when trying to turn. It smashed into the ground but aside from having to snap the propeller back in, it was unscathed.Aside from the wheels not really being able to turn, I was able to take off from the ground on the sand of a softball field. The first couple of tries were a little rough on takeoff, but the third takeoff was smooth and strait. I failed to nail any of my landings but I felt like I got close.The setup is super easy. I didn't even look at the instructions. Just pop the wheels in, connect the battery, load your 4 AA batteries (not included) into the controller, and you're ready to go.I didn't bother charging the battery before flying and it lasted about 10 or 15 minutes out of the box. I forgot to bring the second one with me. I'm charging them as I type this so we'll see if I can get more juice on a fresh charge.To sum it up, I think this is a great starter plane. I don't expect it to last too long but I was impressed with the ease of use and it's a lot more durable than it looks. And successfully taking off from the ground was an added bonus that I certainly wasn't expecting after reading some of the reviews. I had so much fun that I may upgrade to a more advanced plane after this one dies. I would definitely start with this one though.

Got this for my 11 yo son as a replacement for a 3-channel simpler plane which started falling apart after meeting the ground a few too many times.It has everything to start playing (RTF means ready-to-fly). It comes in a box in which you can carry it when you go to the field. It has one battery which lasts a few minutes, you can buy more if you want. The charger is USB and can only charge one battery.It is small enough that you can fly it on a football/baseball field. My backyard is not big enough though. My understanding that you don't have to be a member of AMA to be able to fly this (I think you do if you have much larger planes). It is sensitive to the wind but you can fly it as long as wind is not too strong; it's funny how you can make it stay still (relative to the ground) when flying against the wind.This plane has 4 RC channels: throttle; elevators (on the tail allowing you to raise or dip the nose), ailerons (on the wings to make it roll left or right and make the plane turn) and the rudder (on the tail making the nose move left or right to help with the turn).Having controlled ailerons allows you to make aileron roll (which turns out is different from barrel roll!) so you can't do that with 3-channel planes.The controls are very user-friendly, they offer 3 levels of complexity, there's a switch on the side of the controller. The simplest one is the most stable one but doesn't allow you to maneuver too much. So you can just make it ascend or descend and make very wide turns. Next one allows for more control of the plane while still providing some stabilization (the plane has sensors and a microcontroller onboard which makes adjustments to the appropriate control surfaces to keep the thing level). The most advanced level gives you full control over the thing and you can move control surfaces to the max.My son usually uses level 2, I used level 3 a few times and almost wrecked it so try to stick to level 2.I would say that this can even be a 1st RC plane, but you can also opt for a simpler and a cheaper one. This is the 3rd RC plane I own, I wrecked the 1st one very quickly and 2nd one is pretty badly damaged after all the falls. So it's probably better if this nicer plane is not your 1st.Its propeller snaps onto the motor so that if it smashes into the ground too hard, it comes off instead of breaking. I don't know if it helps or not, never had the propeller break before, but did lose one when it came off after hard landing and we couldn't find it in the grass. The toy comes with 2 spare propellers though.It is much more sturdy than it looks and feels, mostly because it doesn't fly very fast and we always fly it on a field so when it falls it's on the grass which provides a cushion. Still, after 1+ years, as my son got carried away with trying to do an immelmann, he slammed it into the ground at full speed and the wing completely broke. I will try to to repair it or even get a replacement wing, but I also ordered a new plane from the same company, P51, with similar controls but a bit faster and more difficult to control.

Great little starter plane, easy to fly in all the stabilization modes. With no wind, turning off the stabilization enables some great aerobatics and shows some good flying characteristics.Props have a tendency to pop off with the smallest of prop strikes, so if you flip while landing you'll have to walk out and find where the prop went.Landing gear leaves something to be desired, main wheels are not placed far enough forward of the CG and the plane has a tendency to flip at touchdown as a result. Best bet is to either put bigger wheels on it or to make your own landing gear.All in all, great little starter for those new to the hobby.