No matter what you think, your plane may or may not be ready and set up properly. I don't want to sound harsh, but the reality of it is that there are items on your plane that, no matter what you read, you won't understand until you have someone that has done it before, look it over and point out the particular issues with every single item on that plane that is critical to flight.

You may wish to go it alone, and that's up to you. The best suggestion I can give you is to at least have someone that is experienced and well prepared to look the plane over and make darned sure that everything is ready to go.

One common mistake is that after the first flight, if you manage to get it on the ground safely, is that confidence level that you may develop from that experience, then refuel and take-off right away. This is a common mistake of many that try this on their own, and I can understand that. However, the second flight is the one where many fail, where crashes occur, mainly because the post flight checks were not done and something as simple as a loose screw on a servo arm that wasn't picked up before, vibrated to the point where it was ready to fall off. Then, once airborne on the second flight it falls off, the servo arm comes away from the servo, and, as Murphy would have it, that arm just happens to be on the elevator servo. Now what do you do?

I speak from experience on that particular problem because it happened to me, and that was with an instructor on hand. We both failed to check this control after the first flight, and it failed on the second flight and that was that.

Do yourself a favor and get some assistance from a qualified instructor at a club field. You won't regret it one bit.

CGr.