Originally Posted by Letsroll...

Thanks for the advice, and sharing your wisdom and experience. Yes that was it for sure, the pucker factor I guess and lack of experience clouded some judgment calls. I definitely knew that was a bad thing with the crosswind. I should have just waited until I found an area better suited for the conditions. If the wind would’ve been going the right way, it’s not a bad place to fly. I will keep an eye on it. There is a cell tower that is right by the area that I’m flying maybe 50 yards. But I did a range check everything checked out ok. but I did set up the virtual fence to put the flying area on the other side of the road over the field. It seem like it was in a smaller area than what I was used to flying with the Sim. I guess that’s a good thing but I felt confident when up there in having control.
And I did have the throttle completely cut, I did not forget that. (Only if your landing in the field go around come into the wind idiot lol) After a few minutes of flying, I realized I screwed up when I was trying to lose altitude and come down. With that wind she does not want to lose altitude! I tried to keep my wits about me when coming down, but I let the false sense of urgency to land overcome some of my decisions. Very nice plane though, cant wait to get back up and redeem myself. But only when the conditions are right, and I have a suitable flying spot for the conditions at that time, But I am on the fence, whether to use the safe modes very much I did not like the fact it was taking my elevator from me and you could see it when it got to a certain altitude coming down., The nose would lift back up, or if it was heading into the wind you completely lost any downward elevator that you had it keeps so shallow. I was trying to resort to cutting the throttle to overcome it but when, headed into the wind right above me she came to a standstill, as far as ground speed naturally because of the right amount of wind to hold her up. But I immediately thought that it was on the verge of a stall so I give it some throttle, and actually flipped back to save at that point because I was on the edge of the perimeter. She dropped her nose and started gaining flight hitting that perimeter and did a quick 180 flying back into the field. It is very nice to use in a pickle to be able to flip back to safe and it resumes level flight. It kind of reminds me of ABS on a car. I understand that’s a great safety feature, but I’ve been driving long enough and have enough experience with driving that I have seen situations it can cause an accident. It takes the brake away from you on slippery conditions. But that’s another topic and I don’t have very much experience in this, but the fact that it takes away some of the controls. I’m trying to “use not abuse” is not very very appealing. I definitely think I will flip it off when I’m in the air and use it as a safe bed if I get out of control, possibly.