Thanks, acdii - that is a most encouraging post. I just minutes ago walked back in the door after the recovery mission on the Apprentice. Found a tree man (Xxtreme Tree Work is the name), whose climber zipped up the tree, tied a nylon rope around the Apprentice and gently lowered it down to me. Looking around on the ground I found the main landing gear and the propeller with collet still attached. Prop was broken. Collet was not.

Some dents on the leading edge where I flew the poor thing into the tree tops, broken prop, and the clevis attaching the nose gear steering pushrod was broken at the servo arm. The beefy 5/32" nose gear didn't even notice anything wrong. The ESC was still beeping when I got back to the tree this morning, and the LiPO was hot and soft. I can't see any damage or problem with the E-Flite Power 15 motor. I expect that was due to the collet coming off soon as the prop hit something.

I am going to bind it to my DX8 and use the Expo and every other feature available. The DX5 is currently employed as a door stop. The controls are sensitive, just as you warned, particularly the elevator. Iam going to tame the controls as first order of business and I wish Ihad followed your caution the first time around.

Thanks again. After this learning experience I will proced with a bit more common sense and less over-confidence. Mike.