Very nice Plane Glowfast! Glad to read of your success with it, and I am sure it is a great flyer. I think you made a good choice for a Plane to teach yourself on. Teaching yourself to fly is not an impossible task as long as you go about it much like the route that you have taken. Learning to fly on a 40 size Trainer by yourself is not an impossible task either, but the odds are really stacked against those who try. A few might succeed, but most will end up with a Plane going home in a garbage sack. Some people think it is arrogant when someone suggest to a new pilot that they should learn with an instructor, and a buddy box. I don't see it this way. I see it as one flyer just trying to give another flyer the best possible advise they can give to someone in regards to learning. Can you imagine the ***** chewing I would recieve from a new pilot if I told him or her that they didn't need an instructor, and that flying a Plane is easy? What do you think that new pilot is going to say to me once they take my advice, and crash that Plane on its first take-off. They would come back on here, and say "I thought you told me it was easy"! I think alot of new flyers misinterpret what an experienced flyer is trying to do when they say go get an instructor. People don't suggest these things because they think someone is stupid, and uncapable of learning on there own. They say these things and pass along this advice out of personal experience, and mistakes they have done or seen, and that they would like to see a new pilot avoid. Its a new pilots choice how they spend there money, and how much of it they spend. I could care less about this. What I care about is seeing someone succeed in this hobby, and be able make it to a point of pure enjoyment. Crashing one Plane after another no matter how much money you have is not only expensive, but it is damaging to a persons confidence, and thus they may decide to go for a much less stressfull hobby, and one less detrimental to their morale. So to all, please remember that there is a difference between a "FLAME", and another person genuinely trying to help another person out. Some may not appreciate it now, but many will later.