After hearing your crash story, there's a number of things that an experienced instructor can correct immediately. On your own, you can't be sure your ship is trimmed right, so the minute you lift off, you're behind the airplane, making control inputs just to keep it level and controlled. An experienced instructor will have the reflexes and know how to do this easily.

Too much up elevator will cause a nasty climb that is surely to result in a low altitude stall that you're not prepared to handle. It's all about feel and there's two ways to get it, both of which have their limitations...fly more sims, which are an approximation of the real thing, or fly more with an instructor. When both methods are combined, I surmise you'll spend more time building new planes and enjoying that vice repairing your current plane while creating a confidence problem with your flying skills.

It's all about confidence...and you need an instructor to provide that security blanket while you learn...don't stay in the nest too long though...otherwise you'll never feel comfortable doing it on your own!

I've read too many posts about people crashing their planes thinking they can do it on their own...don't be that guy...unless you don't care and like doing patch jobs!