This is a tough little plane. Can be tricky for the more experienced since it wants to fly it's self. Could use some better trim on the elevator but I found you can compensate with throttle. Very durable plane for its size. Flys a long time even on the tiny batteries it comes with. Took me a few try's to get a good feel for the controls, but once I did it's great. It is set up to fly its self. Which was cool. It is very responsive. Good flyer around the neighborhood.

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.

This plane is lightweight and comes with everything you need to fly out of the package. Comes with a couple propellers that are easy to change on or off. Really almost break proof as the propeller will just snap off if crashed in a softer grass type area, and you can just snap back on. Easy to do flips and stunts witch the remote pretty much shows you how to maneuver them. I would recommend having some experience in flying remote controlled planes before getting this one tho. It is really not a beginner plane. But once you plug in battery and get it set up it is ready to take off. And it does take off nicely. Over all this is a nice plane to have that comes ready to fly right out of the box.

My 8 year old son loves his plane. He can now do tricks and zoom over your head. He first tried it in a ballfield with sandy dirt. That was bad the motor sucked in a lot of dirt. You could consider having a can of air handy. Buy the extra proppeller kit. Maybe extra batteries too if you plan to fly a lot. We all enjoy watching our kiddo learn to fly.

So much fun... I would recommend.