Mike,

Thank you very much for your best wishes, well you have been very helpful and encouraging to me. Im going to keep you updated about my first ever competition in Novice category this coming friday, I hope I would do good, as my plane is in one piece so far. Nose gear gave me hard time somehow with support and help of my wife she fixed it, and she took off the plane for the first time, and then she couldnt control and handed me the radio, well, I then controlled it. The field where we fly is close to sea shore thatswhy it has a lot of sand and it gets on engine and all around the plane not much but enough to annoy, I took off the engine and cleaned it with rag, now push rod for throttle giving me hard time to connect back, the guy I purchased the plane with is also participating in the competition, and he is gonna hook up the pushrod of throttle rest my plane is ready for the competition. I would let you know,

Thanks again

Mody