I totally agree with My Extra 260,

I was in he's same situation with my first solo and its true, one you have done it once - you can do it much easier the second time because you know what to exspect. Thats not to say that you are becoming a natural after the first flight and wont be crashing for the rest of your RC life. And I will agree, some people here make out that if you dont have an Intructor you will end up failing and blah blah blah. Look the more you learn yourself the better you will be with how everything operates. Some people (just like back in school) get taught something and it goes in one ear and out the other. I also agree that flying is easy, once its up there...its easy to fly, its just take offs and landings that are the hassle. The majority of Intructors get the plane up in the air for you and then hand the controls which is fact they should give them more time on take offs and landings. Ofcourse not on the first flight but atleast give the begginers some feel for the landings and takeoffs.

I would advise any begginer to do ATLEAST some research on RC planes before venturing out and paying hundreds of dollars on a new trainer and exspecting it to fly straight away. Theres MANY factors that come into play with this to just "will it fly good". With any RC and no matter how much money it cost, safety ALWAYS comes first. And to tell ya the truth RC planes and Helis are very dangerous if not handled the appropriate way. You could risk hurting yourself and others if you dont know what you are doing. Study before you attempt anything like this and you should atleast be fine with the basics.

Intructors are up to you. Another good thing is invest in a RC Simulator, just like the majority of all of us. Spend some hours (proabbly a week will do) and you should be fine.

Good Luck!