lol fair enough (about the r/c thing)
wonwinglo - Heres a few examples of the kinda things i've been looking at, the designs seem endless so i'll just post a few samples of the kind i've seen.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HUGE-ONE-METRE...temZ6058769478 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Brand-New-Radi...temZ6059074504 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...tem=6059354331 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HUGE-RC-RADIO-...temZ6058657700 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bluebird-211-R...temZ6057085216
If anything that style is good enough to get into the air and steer around and land i think i'd be happy lol i just wasn't sure if these kind are totally crap or not.
Bunkerbarge - was your Cessna one of these? or something similar
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-R-C-4CH-CE...mZ240000229842
Looks/sounds quite good

sure it'll be fun to use.
Duncan - Cheers for the advice, i'll need to look into clubs, not really sure im that much into it yet though. I just wanted something cheap to mess around with in summer and see if i like it. I dont have any radio sets at the minute, well apart from a Tamiya Monster Beetle controller from years ago lol and i'd only be using the radio supplied with whatever plane i bought, assuming i do buy one.