There are times, however, that there is no choice in the matter. If you cant find a club or someone knowledgeable that can help you then its all up to you. Growing up in Puerto Rico I was faced with that dilema. Not having someone that could guide me in the art of building and flying left me with no option but to try it alone. I did my homework, took me 3 months to build my first airplane, all from scratch, learned basic r/c flying concepts from magazines and pray pray pray. After about 6 tanks of fuel on the ground doing fast taxi runs to nose wheelies then mini-hops into the air I let it climb until it looked like a dot. Level flight was not mastered during this flight and had to bring it deadstick to a not so serious landing. The landing gear came off but the airplane was in one piece. Fixed it that night and my dad and I went again the following day, much better take off and lower passes were accomplished. The landing although better than the first one left me with a bent nose gear but everything else was intact. Eventually I managed to put my trainer on the ground effortless and progress to other airplanes. My point, if there is no possible way for one to get help then you have to do what you have to do....otherwise seek help from a club or a friend that knows about the hobby. My 2 chavos.