Man sorry for your loss!!! Its posts like this that are making me hold off taking my Nexstar up. I "broke my engine in" a few days ago and taxied around. I feel confident with all the controls thanks to the sim but i want to have a instuctor by my side just in case. Biggest reason is im so shakey because i have never flown before. I have read posts about guys who have gone out to just taxi and put her in the air with disasterous results. If it wasnt for those posts i surely would have taken off. Thank goodness for RCU.

Once again sorry about the crash, hope your up in the air again soon!!!