I apologise if I made it seem as though I only crashed my first plane as soon as I got it replaced. I was doing well on it for a few weeks, but then I handed the controller over to my dad (He also broke my mediocre 4 ch helicopter too..., but we got that fixed). I think that I have enough experience with the old plane and other and perhaps a little from my helicopter that I am ready for a 4ch. Besides, the Apprentice and Star Trainer seem to be really good for beginning., The Star Trainer can fly at a really easy and slow and the Apprentice has the panic button and beginner mode.
Anyway, to answer your question, my flying area is ok. It is a bit less than 25 acres in almost q squarish shape. The main problem is it my school's sport area so it has a few lights, fences, stands, and a couple small buildings. It isn't really bad at all though as most of the obstacles are in 1/3 of the area. I also have another one that is much furhter away that is a oval sort of shape that is roughly 1700 long and 500 feet across. Again there is a few obstacles as there is a small park, baseball field, and a low shelter, but north and south of the park is very open.
I will mostly do this alone but I think on weekends my dad and I might fly together. I am hoping my dad will go 50 - 50 or at least 75 - 25 for paying for the planes but he is not sure yet. My Dad think RC planes are kind of cool (he really like these gliders we saw off of some cliffs in La Jolla when we went to California). My Mom couldn't care less if I had a plane or not.
Budget- I am getting almost $200 within a few days (not sure how much of that goes to taxes or whatever). I hope to make at least another $150 before school starts but a part time low wage farm job doesn't give a whole lot of income. If I can work during school, I realistically would probably only make around $50-100 a week since there isn't much help needed during the schoolyear. The place also closes sometime during the fall, as it is a berry farm.