Granted, I haven't been very helpful in terms of responding to posts.
But don't worry about posting new topics asking questions. If someone replys with the whole do a search crap, just ignore it.
It's okay to post, and I clicked your post so goes to show it doesn't really matter if search would have helped you in this question or not. Because well, at least it gave me something to read.
As to your post, arial is a good choice so run with it. Especially considering you are saying you are lazy you might not perma fly, and that's just asking to get your ass kicked. I know for a fact that some of my toughest to PK people are arial any class and that's because I can rule out trip right from the get go.
It's a great race. Forget the hydrophobia which at least is better than it was when you could NEVER go underwater and forget lifespan. If you age die this guy, you can come back and bitch at me :), but age dying shouldn't be the motivation to any choice.