I have been trying to fly Autogyro’s for last three months with very little success.

I built my first autogyro like the DC. I had very little success. From everything that I have read so far, I am supposed to hand launch the model. I have had nothing but crashes! I think I replaced about 12 servo gear sets. I have not been able to find the right angle to hand launch. The model would either go straight up and perform a loop or just go straight into the ground. I am not very good with tail dragger type airplanes so I had a friend take it up one time. It flew!!! He got the model high enough and attempted to make a left turn. The gyro would not recover and it nose dived in! End of first model.

I built a second model which was a .15 size but without pitch control. I got tired of replacing the stripped pitch servo gears. I had little more success with this one. The model flew a little with the first hand launch. With a first attempt, the model would not overcome the breeze and made a emergency landing. I crashed it with a second attempt! I had too much lateral control so I ended up rocking the model left to right then into the ground!

I am going to build a DC gyro one more time. If this does not work, I give up!

It seems that every Autogyro expert dot not recommend tricycle gear model. Why?

What am I doing wrong?