If you are stuck with teaching yourself then I very, very strongly suggest you just hang this one on the wall and use it as your third or fourth model.

You need to build and fly something that is far more gentle and slow for self teaching. Something more like a glider or a cabin style rudder-elevator model that has the same stability and layout as a free flight model.

Even with simulator time you will not be ready for the realities of actual flying. I've tried most of the better simulators and none of them fully handle all the factors that the real thing throws at you.