I don't know if anyone is still reading this, but here is my advice......

LET SOMEONE TEACH YOU TO FLY!!!! -

My brother learned the hard (and very, very, very expensive way) and I learned the easy way. Let a local flying field teach you. The older guys out there are always willing to get someone into flying. I spent a full summer driving an hour (one way) to have some guy teach me for an hour every other saturday if I was lucky. But it was definatly worth it. My brother has gone through hundreds (maybe near thousands) of dollars worth of planes because he was never taught. He learned - the hard way.

I had my trainer for nearly two full years before I sold it for something bigger and better. And thats my two cents.