bruce is right, best thing to do now is to get out to an RC club and have a chat with the club flyers. You will learn more about the hobby in an hour than in 3 months of reading about it. There may even be a few flyers that will have a trainer plane out there that you can try(on the buddy box of course). The weekend is coming up and if its anything like around here, Saturday morning after 9 is when flyers start to show up. Since there are 2 clubs in the area I would visit both clubs to get a feel of the place before joining. Some clubs welcome new members and have great training schedules whiule others prefer pilots who alllready hace their wings.[8D]