knightmagic,

Take it easy, and don`t be too hard on yourself.

Listen to the good advice; get a simulaotr and work at it because it WILL make the real thing a lot easier.

I fly full scale for a living, and I can tell you that learning RC flying is more difficult than the real thing; well I found it so, but others may not agree.

Whenever I had a down day, or crashed, I looked around and concluded that if these guys standing around could learn, then so could I. It was occasionally embarrassing, but what the hell.

Crashing taught me a valuable lesson though, apart from the obvious one, and that was that I really enjoyed repairing and building, probably more than the actual flying.

It was difficult at times because I didn`t have a buddy box, or sim experience at that stage, just a guy standing there giving advice in Japanese, and I don`t speak Japanese!!!

When you do finally get it, you will never believe that you had trouble because it will seem so easy. Before you know it you`ll be doing aerobatics.