If you want to do it by yourself that is fine. But take this into account first. From what you have said in your post you sound like you are at a regular flying field. So let's think about one possible situation here. You take off your plane that you admit that you don't know how to fly and you crash it into somebody Else's property. Now they are upset and they take legal action against the club that owns the field, and in the long run they get the flying field shut down (don't say it won't happen because it does happen all the time all around the country). I bet you're gonna be real popular with all the rest of the club members aren't you?

Another possibility. You take off your plane and you hit somebody with it. Guess what?? You are now liable for all of their medical bills and will more than likely be seeing a huge lawsuit against you. Several recent lawsuits over injuries caused by a person getting hit by an RC plane have settled out at well over a million dollars. Got a spare million laying around that you can spare? A am assuming that you don't have an AMA membership yet, but even if you did have AMA membership their insurance wouldn't cover you because you didn't follow the AMA 2006 Safety Code.

Since you made the choice to fly without any instruction or help you can forget about the AMA bailing your tail out of a lawsuit.

So now you've gotten a flying field closed down, you have injured or killed somebody that you hit, and you are a million or so in debt all because you knew better than everybody else and were "going to figure it out on your own!!" Was it worth it? You wanted fun right?? Was if fun ruining somebody's life just because you thought that you knew better than others did??? Sounds like fun to me, almost as fun as having my toes smashed with a hammer.

Ok, let's step back for a second and look at the situation here. You're starting to think that everybody is giving you a hard time about this. Yes, that is true, they are. Why?? You have to realize that a lot of the people here in this forum are veteran instructor that have been teaching students for years and years. I myself have been teaching students for about 6 years now and I can't even begin to count how many people that I've taught. The point that I'm getting to is that all of us have seen plenty of people like you come along. You think you know more than everybody else and you can do it on your own, you don't need any of us to teach you to fly. People like that usually try several times to fly until their plane is destroyed beyond repair, and then they move on to the next expensive hobby. The problem with this is what I have said above, these planes are DANGEROUS. They can, and have, killed people. I know of people that have been paralyzed for life because of being hit by a plane.

So with all of that said, here is my words of advice. If you really really really want to learn this by yourself. Go find a field that has absolutely nobody else around for at least 10 miles and try to fly it by yourself. But if there is anybody within that 10 miles you risk either damaging property, hurting or killing somebody, or shooting down somebody elses plane because you didn't know about frequency control (oh yeah, that is something else the instructor will teach you about too.) Otherwise I would recommend that you find an instructor, swallow your pride, be quiet, and learn to fly and RC plane.

This may sound like I am being a bit harsh, especially coming from a moderator, but I am trying to get your attention. This is a serious matter and you need to take it seriously. Now as a moderator my first thoughts were to lock down this thread, but I've changed my mind and I'm going to leave it open for a bit longer. Why?? Because I really am interested in your reply to all of us. But know this, I won't let you continue to post here only to ignore the answers you get. RCU is a fantastic place for the RC community, and the Beginner's Forum is one of THE best places on the internet for beginner's to get help. But it's not for somebody to come in here and ask questions only to ignore the answers given and then tell everybody you can do it yourself. That is just a waste of space and it hurts the people that really are looking for help. So if you continue doing that I will remove any threads of like that. But if you would like the take this a bit more serious then I welcome you to RCU and the RC community. It's a great place full of great people.

Ken