Some people just won't take advice.

I say go ahead and fly it yourself, but please do it far far away from people and property.

You'll either be a great success, learn it yourself and prove everybody wrong, or you'll crash it a few times, get tired of spending hours building/fixing for seconds of uncontrolled crashing, and quit entirely.

At least he's trying it with a trainer, instead of the guy that wanted to do it with a .30 size Extra. We never heard from him again, must have his tail between his legs.