I'm like most it depends on the person and their personality, my brother and I self taught ourselves and did fine. After we got comfortable and flying advanced airplanes is when we finally crashed a few planes by one uping each other we are extremely competitive, most of the planes that we have crashed in the past 15 years have been construction/equipment failures, battery going dead, battery coming unplugged, these were the things that we really needed advice on is how to prevent these type of failures, also we had a couple of radio interferences. but that attributes to pilot error by not assuring everything is ready for flight, I still think it all depends on the person and situation