Hi Snow,

Sorry about the flight, sounds familiar. On the ROG. My experience is that most small autogryos are difficult for ROG. My smallest is the Arizona Gyrobee and I have only tried ROG twice and failure both times but I have had many flights with hand launch. My only bad experience with hand launching is, I keep chopping my transmitter antenna off with the engine prop before I get the rotors spinning. If you hand launch the fun fly planes you should have no problem with the gyro. The most difficult part is getting the trim fairly close. With the gyro tilted back in one hand, you should feel the gyro blades pulling real hard, almost to the point that you feel your fingers going through the fuselage. Tilt the gyro forward until it's level and a slight push forward as the engine should now be up to full throttle and pulling hard. It sounds like I'm a salesmen for the Co-Pilot but it saved my Gyrobee on the first flight as I was trying to get it trimmed out and it flew into the sun and I had no idea where it was. In another instance, I launched an autogyro for it's first flight and after getting to a safe altitude I switched off the Co-Pilot and the gyro nosed up and flipped over on it's back but I had plenty of altitude to correct and fly again without rebuilding. If I had launched it without the Co-Pilot it would have done the same thing 5 ft off the ground. Hope the next flight is more successful.

Phil