I know people are just trying to prevent you from spending a lot of money and trashing your plan and quiting the hobby.
But man it gets under your skin after the 50th time.
I get the impression that you are thinking about trying to teach yourself. That's a real bad idea if you also want to start out with glow powered equipment.
DB's post was polite. If everyone who had responded with this advice to me in the beginning said it in this manner it probably wouldn't became a pet peive.
Its the people that make the sarcastic remarks like you will make tooth pics out of your plane..etc. and similar that I got tired of hearing over and over.
All I wanted was a response to the original question. I really didn't need to hear that I will demolish my plane if I don't join a club and get an instructor every time I asked something.
Not that I would recommend it, but despite the nay sayers I did learn on my own. I flew my trainer many many flights before I destroyed. It probably cost me an extra $100 bucks on spare parts for the aerobird. But I learned to fly on that, then went glow.
I now belong to a club because I wanted a nice place to fly. Now that I've joined I like it a lot, seeing other peoples planes and its fun to hang out with others who fly. And people will help you with anything.