Well..... The words i told u so would pretty much sum up this story. I don't have an instructor and have been taxiing around my yard for about a month now. This weekend I built up the nerve to fly. I was confidante and also prepared to face the conciqueces of a crash. I lifted up and landed about 5 or 6 times and on the last go round I got "dumb thumbs" and pulled up when i wanted to go down, plane went high in the air then behind a building and i couldn't see it anymore then i heard it die[:@]. Plane (from my point of view) is totaled and like jdewolftx my engine was buried in the mud with my plane sticking straight up in the air with the wings broke in half. I was able the salvage all my electronics but my engine lost the idle screw (broke clean off). But my engine is salvagable either with a new carb. or idle screw. I have read numerous threads about yall telling ppl (DON'T FLY WITHOUT AN INSTRUCTOR!) but did anyway. I have plans to buy a new trainer and either buy a sim or find an instructor. By the way the plane was a hanger 9 easy fly 40, engine was o.s. fp40, elecs. was jr. Anyway i just wanted to post my sob story so someone else would read this and think twice about trying to fly by themself. Oh and just so yall know i was no danger to no one but myself i was in my yard by myself with nothing but crawfish fields around my house and the nearest neighbors a good mile away. LIke i said i was prepared to face the conciqueces but i didn't know that it would hurt this much! Any positive responses would be helpful. Thanks.[&o]