VOLANTEXRC RC Plane Trainer Sport Cub 4CH Remote Control Airplane with Prop Saver, 6-Axis Gyro Stabilizer & 3 Modes to Fly, Radio Controlled Aircraft RTF for Beginners & Adults (500mm,Blue)

I bought this plane last year. I've wanted once since I was a kid and finally got around to buying one. The gyroscopic stabilizer is great. Beginner is pretty fail proof, intermediate allows you to do some tricks and fly tighter turns while still being forgiving. Expert is hard, but I'm also no pro. The ailerons are a huge factor in making this great. A friend bought one without them and it's much less fun. Something to note, I have flyed a lot and gotten pretty good, but I have crashed mine probably 50 times flying in too small of an area in my backyard, a few at full speed. It held up very well and I was surprised how long it lasted before a crack. After many many head on collisions it did eventually crack the foam in the nose, but was easily repaired with some clear gorilla glue. Still flies great after the repair. If your more careful than me and fly in fields I would not be surprised if it never breaks. The prop is pretty durable and pops off if crashed. This is good since the prop won't break. The downside is it can be easy to loose them. I've debated spray painting one high visibility orange to make it easier to find.

Even though this plane is made of styrofoam, it's pretty durable! My dad bought one of these and on his first flight crashed it into a light post, and it didn't take much damage at all. Later on, he found he was losing control of his plane when he flew it, possibly something wrong with the electronics. But he sent it back and got a replacement at no charge! The different flight modes make this much more fun and easy to fly than it would be otherwise. This plane takes off within just a few feet and climbs great. The expert mode is really fun, although I generally only use it when the plane is at least 100 feet in the air. I often lose control in expert mode since I'm not too experienced, so this plane should have crashed dozens of times if it weren't for the different difficulty modes. I simply switch back to beginner mode and it straightens out of its tailspin or nose dive or whatever, which makes me more comfortable trying out complex aerobatics and risky maneuvers (as long as the plane is high enough). Anyway, this is an absolute joy to fly and has really helped break the monotony of quarantine. My dad and I often fly together. We make sure we pair our planes when they're both on the ground, though. Every once in a while, one controller pairs to both planes, so we always make sure our controllers are paired to the correct planes before taking off. I would recommend this plane to anyone!

Excellent in almost every respect and with an excellent user manual. But the pictured plane is not the plane you get! There is no tail wheel! Oh yes, they put one In the box, but..... There's no way to attach it to the plane!!!

This is the first RC plane I've ever owned and it is SO MUCH FUN!!!! There are 3 modes: Beginner (pull upper-right side switch towards you), Intermediate, and Advanced (push upper-right side switch away from you). Beginner mode makes jumping into this hobby a breeze. The stability control system keeps the plane steady and makes it extremely user friendly for ALL! I found myself in intermediate mode after 20 minutes in beginner. After another 2 hours and a couple crashes I am now operating in Advanced mode which is challenging. The stability system in this mode is turned off and so the flight controls are very responsive, making the plane incredibly acrobatic. This plane can take a beating! I've nosed dived into the ground, crashed into a tree, landed it in a swamp, and it's still going like new. Although I've had to reinforced parts of it with super glue and duct tape. It is so light and glides so well that the flight time between both batteries will easily last 45 minutes. And it charges in less than an hour! I can't recommend this enough. Right out of the box you'll be flying this thing in a matter of minutes. UPDATE (7/25/20) Just nosed dived into the sandy part of a baseball field and the nose snapped right off but all the flight controls and throttle are still operable! I’ve been repairing the aircraft with epoxy resin and have experienced no degradation in flight performance. MUST HAVE!!!!

The plane flies well but the problem is with the propellers. First, they break easily. They're supposed to fall off with a crash without damage but they almost always break. The main problem is finding replacement propellers. The note on Amazon says: "Currently unavailable - We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock". That note has been posted for a long time. I ordered replacement props from EXHOBBY which were (allegedly) shipped from China. They mysteriously couldn't ship to my son's address so it was returned to the US warehouse????? The order is being sent again from China. I'm not getting my hopes up. Why can't Amazon get any props? Why don't they stock them in their US warehouse? I would think carefully before order from VOLANTEXRC.

This little plane is amazing for the price. 10 years ago this would have been crazy expensive, and this tech wasn't mature enough to be viable....they had tiny RC planes, but they were difficult to fly for your average pilot. The beginner mode and intermediate mode work very well and make flying this little plane a breeze. Any one who knows the basics of flying can fly in beginning mode. I flew it on expert for a little bit, to do some aerobatics, I don't recommend it unless you are VERY experienced. It was really squirrely in expert mode and can get out of hand in hurry, and the wind even a little bit can really mess you up. I have only flown this plane 3 times, once in my front yard, twice in my alley behind my house using the dirt road as a run way. It needs to have a smooth runway or it will nose over. The wheels are very small. I took it off in a track I made with my truck tire and that worked fine, but I wasn't precise enough to land it in the track for both flights back there and it nosed over on the landing from the bumpy road, it landed fine on the black top on the street in front of my house. The good news is NO Damage. I also dropped it from shoulder height while removing the battery, also no damage. The flight times are very long, I didn't notice any decrease in power before I landed and was up each time for several minutes, I didn't time it but it felt like I was flying for a while. Half throttle is more than enough power for normal flying, it still gains altitude even slightly below half throttle. To sum it all up, I highly recommend this plane to any one who knows the basics of flying RC.

I'm an expert RC flyers, I have flown many complex RC aircraft, including multi engine, and jets. I got this to use on vacation. It's not bad for the price. Because of its small size, I would not consider this a "Trainer". It's relatively easy to fly, but there are easier (and bigger) ones out there. You'll want something bigger. It can be difficult to teach yourself how to fly a model airplane. That's because left and right controls reverse when the plane is coming toward you. This is a skill that can take about 30 minutes to master. If you have someone to help you, that's the best, but they are also simulator programs that you can run on your desktop computer to train yourself. The product is manufactured in China, and in some cases, the instructions gonna be a little comical to read. It's sad that they have eliminated the ability for users to comment on a review. In the past, customers were able to help each other with these comments. Sadly, those days are gone. Sometimes, manufactures, would respond to reviews to help a customer as well.

Likes: + The airplane is very lightweight and takes off very easily, with minimal rolling or release from a friend's hand + The gyro-based beginner, intermediate and advanced modes are a great way to ease into learning to fly it + The disposable and removable propellers are a nice approach for handling rough landings + The engine runs for a reasonable amount of time, about 10-15 minutes per flight Dislikes: - It's very easy to lose when flying at a distance. Impossible to tell which direction it's heading, it's then gone. - The u-turn mode didn't work for us. It needs a better "return to home" feature. - The build quality is very low. Our first purchase lost the lower wing "wire" link at the fuselage. The second purchase began flying erratically and uncontrollably, hovered like a helicopter, then dove deep into a forest. - The landing gear are only useful for takeoffs and possible for landing on smooth concrete. Landing on asphalt, the gear snaps off and scratches the lower nose. Landing on grass, it's a smoother landing without the gear. - The styrofoam build quality is poor. The aileron on our second purchase of this plane was cracked on arrival. - Price/value: I'd pay $40-50 for it again, but it's cheap fragile styrofoam and plastic, not worth over $100. - The Asurion insurance doesn't cover the most frequent scenario: Loss of the plane (due to a gyro, control failure, or disorientation during distant flight)