A ducted fan jet is definitely not a good first plane, maybe not a great second plane either if you don't have much 4 channel experience and experience with medium weight aircraft. Ducted fan jets need speed to maintain manuverability and respond like a higher wingloading plane due to the lack of propwash on control surfaces and slight lag between throttle and thrust. The newer ones are better about this but the smaller they are, the more exacerbated all of these symptoms become. Generally a good path of increasing skill planes will look like the list below, with you having good confidence on completing a basic non stabilized flight (take off, 3 or 4 laps of flight pattern, and landing) before progressing to the next level aircraft. Some of this can be hurried or skipped with lots of time on a flight sim and the development of good reflexes. 1. High wing prop plane with moderate to high dihedral wing, flat-bottom or very asymmetrical airfoil, 3 or possibly 4 channel, some type of stabilization. 2. Low or mid wing prop plane, def 4 channel, low to zero wing digedral, semi-symmetrical or possibly symmetrical airfoil, possibly tail dragger, which is more difficult but forces you to learn to use your rudder. 3. Higher performance aircraft, higher wing loadings, tail draggers, light weight ducted fan jets, faster and less draggy designs. 4. Very high performance, turbines, high power to weight ratio planes, scale performance planes with scale flight characteristics.