The simlulator will help you get a good grip on whats going on. Mainly the control reversal bit but don't go up by yourself. Once you start with an instructor who hopefully has his act together, you need to disciline yourself with basic traffic pattern technique as in the full scale. Not this flying all over the darn place but basic traffic patterns. Takeoff, crosswind, downwind, base, final and landing. A nice rectangular pattern. To many instructors let students go all over the place flying virtually out of control.