Trust us on this one, if nothing else, start a thread here and ask for someone in your area who would be willing to help. It would be worth the drive if you went and met Hogflyer and let him help. I already owned just about every Parkzone and Hobbyzone plane there is and was pretty experienced with electrics before I switched over to glow engines. I had someone teach me how to start the engine, tune the engine, fuel and de-fuel, test the glow plug, etc. He also taught me some safety habits with handling the glow plug starter and the plane itself while the prop is spinning.

One training session and a buddy box flight was all I needed to get going on my own, but without that one lesson, I'm pretty sure I would not have succeeded.