Proud to say, I'm also self taught. As a 13 year old ( 23 years ago ), I started thinking, why would I pay somebody 40 to 60 an hour for instruction, when I could teach myself and put that money towards fuel and thats exactly what I did.

I taught myself with a Global Thunder Tiger ( Lil Tiger ) .10 2 stroke, 3 channel. I think it's very important for someone who wants to teach theirselves rc to use a 3 channel and not a 4 channel rc plane. As a newbe, less = success, know what I mean?

Self-taught is NOT for everybody. Example: I've been teaching my older brother to fly a Tower trainer .60 for 2 years now and he's still not comfortable with the landings and breaks props very often. My younger brother learned MUCH faster and was landing like a champ in 5 days. There is a big gap between 5 days and 2 years, not to mention they are not teaching themselves.

Yes, teaching yourself to fly rc planes is VERY possible and yes it's not for everybody. Through my 23+ years of rc planes/ heli's, I have never crashed a single plane/ heli and have only broken 1 prop 2 months ago.

I would love to fly competition and win a trophy, but then again, I take everything for granted and feel it's better someone else have the glory.

Great post Stixoz...