JD
Considering the money you will eventually spend to teach yourself how to fly I would suggest investing on a Flight Simulator, it will be cheaper on the long run also when you get to the point where you are ready to step up to more maneuverable and/or scale airplanes (including Jets) you will always have some thing to practice with. And hey you will always have some thing to fly even though it is raining or cold out there. JMHO