First Time Post - Turnkey vs Flipping

[Matthew Nield]

I'm a newbie and this is my first post. :)

I want to begin in real estate investing and wanted to see what everyone thought of this strategy - 

I am thinking of purchasing some Turnkey properties over the next couple years to get my feet wet and learn more about real estate in general (financing, expected maintenance, etc).  Kind of like real estate training wheels.  During that time I'd be reading and learning more about flipping, which I'd like to try eventually.  I'd expect the best way to learn about flipping is to just try it, but I'm a little risk adverse.  I'd feel much less anxious if I learned and researched more before doing flipping.  

Does this sound like an okay strategy?