I can not strees enough the importance of finding your local flying club and joining them. Most, if not all, have a training plan and I have met very few people in the R/C world that would not help.

There are several advantages to joining a club.
1) The combined years of flying experiance is something of great education to learn from.
2)Most clubs habe a trainer and a buddy box and more than enough experianced pilots that are more than willing to help.
3)you have more help than you could imagine if needed
4)MOST IMPORTANT---------- You have to join AMA. Some people think this is a wast of money. I will tell you from experiance, it is worth it.

I was injured at our field. To make a long story short, the AMA insurance saved me a big hospital bill. An airplane ran into me from behind at near takeoff speed. The point is that the AMA provides you with insurance coverage as well as you local field.

5) You have access to people that can prefight your bird and make sure everything is flight worthy and safe. Even us experianced flyers like to have another set of eyes over things before maiden flight. We are all human and can forget things. A pretty simple way to reduce the risk of a problem on the first flight. Also they can fly and trim your plane for you.

All in all you will have a little investment joining a club. If you look at the advantages and the odds of trying to go it alone, well you have more than made up the investment. And it is a lot of fun too.

I just moved across my state and have no club here. I really miss the friendship and gathering with someone else to fly with.

Maybe I will start my own....... Well hope this helps, and have a great time. Too many people invest in the sport only to fail at their first attempt and then just quit out right. Sad way to try a sport.

Email me anytime for any help you may have.

Dave