hi from the ozark mountain barnstormers!
and welcome to the hobby. don't buy anything yet and come out and fly, i will gladly put you up on a trainer cord on my trainer, on a wed. or sun. our club has a bunch of tight wads.....errr i mean efficient spenders. there is some available used flight equipment( flight boxes etc.) and trainers that we sometime pick up in a sale or in a lot purchase and the guys make this stuff available at cost..and these guys are CHEAP...errr i ment frugal. i know that right now there is a couple trainers and a good bunch of ground equip that one of our guys is sitting on and he is reasonable to work with if your serious.

our field is located as follows:
from 65 / hwy CC go west on CC just past Fremont hills turn Left or south on Cheyenne you will see our sign on the right if the gait is open come on in clear down the where the cars park..Visitors are always welcome. we usally let new prospective members fly a few times as guests and we don't mind if other club's members stop in to fly and say boo occasionally either.
i am off work for a while do to some surgery but i am flying some and would consider training you to fly. just ask which guys teach and you'll get my name. see the list of contact posted earlier and jim mikulin is posted as the contact he has my # also. this is a realy good time to do this, if you pick up some used stuff ( it will be good cause i hate teaching on junk) we could get you training pretty quick.