RE: 3rd flight ever... aerobird extreme... no survivors
imrec,
My comment above was not meant to be harsh, but I have seen a number of beginners try to learn on their own and get discouraged by crashes.
While I never crashed my first two planes, I did destroy many of the subsequent ones in the last 26 years; in fact, i have come to accept that it is only a matter of time before any plane eventually goes down, wether it takes a couple of flights or several hundreds, or even thousands.
If you get started on the right track, you will have many days of joy, and a few miserable ones when you want to give it up. I wanted to quit flying after many of my crashes. But eventually, I see the model that I NEED TO HAVE next, so here we go again!
Overall, this hobby has been very exciting to me.