RE: learning to fly before you fly
You young whipper-snappers have it to easy these days! Back when I was your age, I had to walk uphill both ways to the RC field, carrying a block of ice, to fly my planes!! We'd go to the Wal-Marts and buy an armload of planes, and crash all of 'em just to learn how to fly. I made a nickel a day and had to save for months to buy a plane! Kids just don't appreciate the value of a nickel anymore...
Sorry about that! I skipped ahead 50 years and was practicing my old man wisdom!!! :-))