Well, that's a good goal but not necessarily realistic. Things happen. I am not a nay-sayer, by any stretch of the imagination, however, I've crashed a few, not as many as some have, but a few. All could have been avoidable, especially the two where I forgot to raise the antenna on a 72MHz system.. but, the mitigating circumstances were that I had been flying 2.4GHz all day and the switch over to 72 MHz, well, suffice to say that I didn't even notice the antenna was down until it was to late.

One funny one was the same plane that I forgot to raise the antenna with, a SIG Little Something Extra electric conversion, well, the first time, it floated down and broke the prop. The second time, well, it was up and flying, then I flew it a bit further away trying to set up for a landing when I started to notice that I didn't have control of the ailerons.. then the rudder.. so I pulled the throttle back to idle as it went directly away from me. I found it later that day in the woods about 200 yards in, on the ground, and, again, with a broken prop. Wow, was I lucky.. Three's a charm?? I hope not!! I would prefer to think that I learned from those two... um three experiences.

But, again, things happen. The best way to keep the count down to a minimum is to do a thorough pre-flight, check the batteries, make sure you hooked the ailerons up correctly (if you are using ailerons.. a reversed aileron setup can ruin your whole day)... stand behind it and move the stick to the right.. the right aileron should go UP. If it goes down, STOP and check your setup. Next, of course, is to fly reasonably and practice practice practice. Do many low passes at low speed simulating landing, do many touch-and-goes to improve your landing technique, and go way high, somewhere in the sky, pull the throttle to idle and "declare a dead stick" and bring it on in safely. Do it downwind, upwind, far away, close in, do it a lot. Get the technique down.

You can also do all of this on the simulator... best part of that, of course, is the space bar!!! (with RF, this resets the flight).

If you practice what I've suggested, I can pretty much guarantee that your accident rate will be kept down to a minimum.

Best of luck!!!

CGr.