To all new pilots reading this post...Yes you can teach yourself...however I don't recommend that approach....
These airplanes bite...and they bite hard.....I wish you could see my right hand...an instructor teaches you safety-
There are things to do and ways to fly at a club field...You know the pattern and no fly zones Etc.....an instructor teaches you that...
You can fly a simulator...but a sim helps a student learn it is by no means an instructor subsitute...there is simply no better way to learn than with stick time
An instructor will 99% of the time let you take your airplane home in one piece.
And the number one reason to get with an instructor.....why rob yourself the friendship your going to make with your instructor...and the other guys around the field....you know those guys standing around will even tell you good landing when you make one.....
I know this is off topic.....just didn't want someone to read this and think teaching yourself is a good approach...If you think it is send you're 16 year old son out with your new vette and have him teach himself to get his drivers license