Hey guys!

I bolted my landing gear with nylon bolts. The other day when I was breaking my engine in, I decided to taxi around a little and take it up one feet or two knowing that my plane was too nose heavy to fly. I was running rich at the time and took off at full throttle. Once I got 1-2 feet in the air I reduced the throttle to bring it down and I let go the down elevator and my plane just went down real hard. I only broke the nylon bolts holding the landing gear. Being this is a spad... should I use metal bolts? or should I stick to nylon, it really wasn't high from the ground and they broke, I'm new to this hobby and I predict my landings will be a little to very hard at first, I don't want to change the nylon bolts all the time. I guess people use nylon bolts so that the bolts break and not the fuselage right?!!? Should I be concerned by this if I have a PVC fuselage?

What do you guys think? oh yeah, before telling me to get an instructor, send me 150$ to join the club, another 50$ for the MAAC (Insurance) and a willing instructor to teach me when I want too and without waiting 3 weeks... I'll gladly take that route. That being said, I for one, really appreciate this forum, I see all of you as instructors, I've learn a lot since I've been reading posts here but I'll take my chances with my 30$ spad Once I learn the ropes and decide that I enjoy this hobby enough to spend 200$ for a club and insurance, I'll join one.

Take care!