I learned on my own also about 30 years ago at the expense of several airplanes. Came very close to doing severe damage to personal property and people too. Got lucky in that I missed them, except for one building. No credit to me though, just pure luck as I had no idea of what I was doing. All this even though I was maintaining a full scale flight simulator and flying full scale at the time.

Ya want to do it on your own? Get out in the middle of nowhere so you can only hurt yourself. Send video for our entertainment too.