I'll ditto what's aready been said. I did teach myself to fly because I just didn't know there were any clubs around and I didn't learn about RCU until I had already been flying for a while. Now I teach people to fly so I can save them a lot of the agravation and money that I wasted in the process. The closest club to me is an hour away and if I had known about it when I started, the fuel I would have spent driving to the club would have been a fraction of the money I spent crashing, repairing, and buying new planes! If you really have no choice, it is not impossible to learn on your own, but get ready for frustration and set backs. If there is a club within an hour or two of you, it will be well worth your time to go there. At the very least, you definitely need to start with a high wing trainer and find someone with some experience to help you.