I take Skellum's point about the expense of clubs all right. I succumbed at long last to the temptation to get myself a flying toy and talked my wife into buying me a JP ElectraFun (elevator, rudder, motor on/off) for a birthday present. It cost a penny shy of UK£100 and it would cost me a large fraction of that just to join my local club. Fortunately I have a footie field just behind my house, it is not often used, it even has a hayfield next to it (at least until they mow the hay and it reverts to being a cow field) and so I have room to try out this lightweight ('prox 1lb) flyer without endangering anyone in particular. Also I've ate, breathed and slept the theory of flight for nearly 40 years and have thousands of MCFS flying hours logged. But for anything faster and heavier, I agree, it'd be foolish not to join a club, and chances are I'll do exactly that within the year.