Listen to these folks! I am brandy new to this hobby as well. I have an instructor (INVALUABLE HELP), working with a club (MORE HELP)I joined AMA (INSURANCE & MORE HELP)and you found RC Universe (HELP,HELP,HELP & MORE HELP). I can not beleive all the stuff I never thought about that I have learned since I began. The biggest surprises were all the stuff I didn't even know I didn't know!

Cracking up planes is going to be depressing. So having someone to share your anguish with is a good thing. If you have noticed one think I have learned so far, we all need HELP in this hobby. Not only info from a magazine or forum, but from folks who have been through it.

Even at 51 and deep into a second career, I get to be the FNG again.

Good luck with which ever way you go. Just don't get bummed when stuff happens and you don't know why.

Al