Well ladies and gents, its time to post the post I never wanted to have to post but for this thread to remain as factual as possible I must swallow my pride and share todays disaster with you all. I'm sure the doubters were just waiting for this today but in my defense I would of probably done this whether it was at a club or in a field on my own.
As a lot of you can probably tell from some of my posts I'm not one that likes waiting and I tent to like to learn about things the hard way. I've been like that since I was born I'm afraid.
to start with its blowing about 20mph and gusting up to 30 today. Not ideal conditions but I would normally see them as easy for some conservative flying. Landings can be bouncy but I get it down in one piece. Except for today that is.
I was doing my normal practice of loops and rolls and a little bit of high up inverted, getting used to using the elevstor to keep it level.
Well I decided to roll into invert and lets say I was a little outside of the three mistake height, and obviously the one mistake height. I rolled into inverted and was flying into the head wind. Stupidly I pulled up instead of down and just nosed the plane right into the field. The engine was totally below ground level so that gives you an idea of the impact.
If it doesn't then these pictures will certainly give you a good idea:
The moral here is do not go getting ahead of yourself and thinking you can fly what ever you like because until you can react without having to think first then this could always happen if youre too low. So my second recommendation is to always be up hiigh unless youre prepared to lose your plane like this.
I have a video (cheap camera which still works, lol) filming on the plane which I would share but the SD card seems to have ejected in the air or in the wreckage and I can;t find it with my eyes. I'm borrowing a friends metal detector tomorrow to go and have a better look. If I find it I'll share as there will be some great footage from a goot 800 feet in the air.
On a positive note I have an identical plane that I bought on Ebay for £30 ($60) and that includes literally everything to fly except an engine. I'll strip this engine down and rebuild it. The crast has snapped the needle valve from the carb and ripped the threads out so its a new carb required at least.
So there you go guys. I taught myself to keep the plane in the air but got too cocky for my own good and had a little bump. Unfortunately the amount of cyano I would need will cost more than the plane I bought so this one was stripped and is now in the bin.
As far as re-using all the radio parts and engine does anyone have any advice on what to do to check everything over properly before using it again? I know some of you wouldn;t use any again but surely I can do if I'm not using it on a stupidly expensive plane?