Thanks for the detailed responses. I'm already hooked on all of this and I've only done the sim! Perhaps once I get enough time to even scratch my a** on the weekend, I'll have a chance to get to the local club. That should be in another week...this weekend I'm going to an airshow...full scale planes this time around.

As you had suggested, I've added wind, and all of the other available obstacles to make the sim training as challenging as possible until I actually get up in the air.

I do have another quick question regarding radios and frequencies. For those of you with more than one aircraft, does that mean your using seperate radios for each plane or do you have some that operate off of the same frequency? And how much are you looking at if you need to change a frequency in your controller?

Thanks again for the responses. This forum has a good vibe.

Lastly, my actual goal is to make my second plane an F-18 turbine jet. Yes....that is a joke. In all honesty, I hope to become proficient in aerobatics if I stick with it. One step at time though...one step at time.

-Brad