After 8-10 years of "teaching" myself to fly....I highly recommend finding a club / trainer!

I've been re-kitting a Goldberg Eagle 2 for many, many years.......I honestly never had to much trouble getting it off the ground and flying simple circles or figure 8's. But getting it safley on the ground again turned out to be far more difficult than it looks, not sure if it was the imperfect surface of whatever field I was flying over....or nerves, but it only takes one little mistake when your that close to the ground to send your plane back to the bench......

This year I went to the AMA site and found that there was a club only 8 mins away from my home......went there and met a few of the guy's and the clubs president put me on the buddy box! After our 3rd or 4th session I solo'd......I now have 42 flights on my Eagle 2 without any issues, have a Top Flite Cessna 182 on the Bench, and one of the club members sold me a Dazzler 40 with motor for 25 bucks! I also learned that flyng with others is far more fun!! My only regret is wasting so much time re-kitting my Eagle 2 all by myself!