RE: Complete Noob Needs Help!
fridge, If you must go it alone without help then an airplane like a Hobby Zone 48" Super Cub is your best chance of learning by your self. It's an electric foamy, 3 channel, trainer that looks like a Piper Super Cub. They fly well right out of the box, cost about $200 ready to fly, and nothing else is required (but an extra battery is smart). Some people have been able to master them without instruction. Others have dinged them, glued them back together and kept going until they got it, and still others have destroyed them and never learned. If you practice on a simulator and go with a simple EZ to fly "park flyer type" plane like the HZ Super Cub you have a shot at it. Don't try this with a 40/60 size 4 channel glo powered trainer, you will fail for sure! Replacement parts are available on line or at your LHS and you may need them. Check them out at Horizon Hobby.