Thanks guys, for all the suggestions. My goal is to accumulate the all the various components over the next few months as cash flow allows. That will give me time with the simulator to practice. Once the weather improves here (going on 30+ days of rain now!) I'll check out some of the clubs around here. My other two hobbies - scuba diving and motorcycling - also had a learning cuve and required patience, so I'm used to that.

I'm really looking forward to RC aviation, I've always been fascinated by aviation, and more specifially the science and technology of it. I've designed aircraft with X-plane, and it occured to me that instead of flying them in the simulator, I could actually fly a scale model. I'm sure thats a few year down the road though, I still gotta get this Sig off the ground!

Thanks again!

Peter