Welcome to the club and, by-the-way, you're nuts.
I'm a bit like Mel'sdad and TR, I like my feet on the ground. I'm a horrible flyer. I'm nervous in a 747 and the smaller they get, the worse I am. No way that you'd get me up in that.
Sounds awesome.Its actually pretty safe , you can go up and shut off the motor and it has a 3 to 1 glide ratio with no power so if you loose power just pick a spot to land and your golden ! They key is not to fly over anything you wouldnt want to land in . Ive been told that oak trees with leaves on are pretty soft to land in . I cant and hopefully will never confirm that . You can fly up to 10,000 feet . But the higher you go the more boring it is . I like to fly about 500 ft and then you can really see everything