Park fliers are also very hard to fly in ANY wind, and may get a newbie into trouble by being too close to bystanders and property.
I disagree with all due respect. I was a park flier for 3 years and I would get to the park early in the day and have a ball with flying several electric planes. People sometimes get in the way but so what, I fly my glow plains on a reservation and people still pop up time to time. Point and case, you are new weigh the odds of equipment cost, travel cost to the club and cost of power source , then decide what kind of plane you want to fly. Yes an instructor is a must as far as saving money, but GLOW is not. I have been to several clubs that don't welcome electric planes and I have recently been to a club that, with out a doubt, welcome electric planes. Personally if I were you I would spend $69 - $100 on a plane and would try to learn on it just to see if I would keep interest. Then I would move on to the bigger stuff whether EP or GLOW. GL
learning to fly the parkflyer is not going to guarantee you can fly the trainer.
I disagree, because that is how I learned. Please understand flight is basically the same for all size airplanes gas or glow. You can learn to fly in a park with an instructor just as well at a club. When I went to a club one day , what scared me was everybody was zipping around the sky and landing how ever they wanted. there really was any kind of control. This not to say all clubs are this way .