Good job! At least you found a club with some nice flyers that are willing to help. Sounds like you allready saved your plane and some $$. All the flight sims teach you before you fly is how the basic stick movements affect the plane. As you found out , this is in general terms only. Each plane reacts different and the wind and other factors can't be corectly duplicated on the sim, at least not yet! Wait till you try steering the plane on a grass field. Its stupid easy on the flight sims but takes practice and getting used to in real conditions. Have fun, fly safe.[8D]