Cool, I think you'll be happy with a club. Your time on the simulator and with other planes will definitely help. If you've been doing this on your own, you may have developed some habits that the instructor will ask you to change. There are many trainers available. One note, among the flying crowd, we use the term "gas" different from the car crowd. If you say gas to us, we take it to mean gasoline. I suspect when you use the term "gas" you mean glow fuel, right? There are many good glow trainers out there. You will see many threads on this subject. Nexstar, Avistar, Simplestar, Bestintheworldstar (just kidding on those last 2) are a few. There's also the Tower Trainer that's a good value and works well. When you are getting ready to buy, I'd suggest buying the individual components, ARF plane, engine, radio, etc, rather than an RTF package. You'll spend about the same amount of money, but you'll end up with much better components.