thunderbolts, as my learned colleague stated above, DON"T use the sym as a video game. Always make the model do what YOU want it to do . If you have weather in that sym, then turn it on, crank up the wind to 10mph, cross wind , and practice landings on the centre line of the strip, no where else. With the same weather takeoff, and half way through the turn , close the throttle, and do a dead stick landing , again down the centre line of the strip. These things are what syms are for, they are not a game. Practice , practice , practice. Set yourself a goal and practice it to perfection. All sym practice is good for flying the real model. After all , your astronaughts spend hundreds of hours on a sym, before heading to space.
Bill , the_madgenius down-under in Australia.