To fly any glow plane, you will need to find a safe field to fly at. Call your local hobby shops and ask them to direct you to some RC airplane clubs. Contact them and get out for a visit. You will learn more in an hour visit than sitting in front of a puter for 3 months straight. If there is no clubs then you are off to a bad start to begin with. You can't just take off out of your back yard! On a personal note, I have a Rascal 40 and its a blast to fly. A buddy has the larger Rascal 110 and I find it to be on the boring side. Its big and has lots of drag which makes it a very slow flying plane. It also goes through a "lot" of fuel per flight due to the engine size required just to get the plane off the ground. You can go to a gas engine to save on fuel but this again is "not recomended" for a first plane. If you check, the engine mounting on these planes is upside down which can also add to engine reliability problems. I modified mine to make the engine mount sideways but it was a "lot" of work.