well tonight I got another 2 solo flights under my belt. First went great just burned the touch and go pattern for about 12 mins or so. 2nd flight I was on downwind and a bit low as the Avistar was idleing high and not slowing down through the approach turn so i was trying to compensate for that, DEAD STICK!! I couldnt believe it then Jon595 asked "you got it??" Out of the corner of my eye it looked as if he was wanting to reach for the tx so I started to hand it off then I relized as I was handing it off my thumb was still on the stick and I had put the plane in a very steep AOB so I decided handing it off at this moment would be disasterous. I straightened it out but due to its low altitude I didnt have enough energy to make a turn into the wind and the direction of the 3/4 of runway I had just eaten up on downwind so I continued straight ahead with about 1/4 of the runway left to use. Landed a bit bouncy and rolled off the runway into the weeds, plane flipped over and quit . After a short walk we saw there was no damage whatsoever, well thats not true the rubber band holding my rx antenna to the vertical stab was broken, and the prop was dinged, oh well can't win em all I guess LOL :stupid: All in all it was a great day. We are taught to always ditch straight ahead if we lose an engine low vice try and make some big hiacha turn 180 degrees and i have read countless testimonials on this very website about ppl who tried to turn the deadstick 180 degrees or so and just stalled it and made the situation worse. I hope to get a solid day of flying in on Saturday and hopefully a club instructor will be there to sign me off safe for solo Take it easy all and keep the shiny side up.

Zach