RE: Just Learning
The best advice that you can get is to find an instructor. As an instructor I've had students come to me after they have spent a lot of time on a flight simulator and I had to "un-teach" all the bad habits that they developed using the simulator. Don't get me wrong, I think that a simulator is a great teaching tool, but only have the student has learned good techniques first. Trust me on this one, finding an instructor is probably the one best thing that you can to do to learn to fly RC aircraft.
Ken