So I've been having some issues getting my tower hobbies .40 engine tuned properly...seems like it will be too rich one day and too lean the next....so I'm working with it today and finally feel like I'm making progress. I take my trainer up for some quick flights to put the engine through it's paces. All I'm doing is touch and goes at my house. About ten acres clear cut with a pond. Totally safe. About my 10-15 minutes into the flight the engine dies. Nothing I'm not used to as this seems to happen all the time. At the time the engine died I had a fair amount of altitude...couple hundred feet. So I'm sorta spiraling down trying to bleed off that energy when WHAM!!! Hit a tree on the wood line. I thought The plane was much closer to me than it actually was. Lesson??? Fly at an AMA sanctioned airfield, avoid trees at all cost. This was my second run in with a tree. The tail section was intact in the tree...only minor wing damage. But when the plane came crashing down out of the tree it landed tail first and crushed the horizontal and vertical stabs. :-(
I haven't looked at it carefully but I think it's salvageable. What do y'all think? I'm actually kinda excited about repairing it. Is that bad???