I ORIGINALLY POSTED THIS IN THE BEGINNERS FORUM..... BUT AS IT RELATES TO THE CORBY I THOUGHT THAT YOU OTHER CORBY OWNERS MAY LIKE TO READ THIS....

Well today was even BETTER!! The weather in Sydney was perfect for flying and today I took full control of my trainer and flew about 10 to 20 circuits!!.. I even took off once... but I left the landing for the more experienced guys... It was a great day for me... but unfortunately the young bloke that is teaching me crashed his sporty bright yellow CORBY on the last flight... man did I feel bad for him...

Now I will just start in saying this guy can fly (aerobatics etc) ... but what happened was he was coming around in a left hand turn onto final... lining up with the runway for the landing... remember this is the last flight of a great day.... a momentary lapse in concentration or a gust of wind.....when all of a sudden the little beautiful CORBY right wing tip stalls and violently banks right wing down and starts heading for the ground and big gum trees. The pilot applied full throttle and full up elevator and for a moment I could see the CORBY dashing through the trees at the end of the runway... but when she didn't come up he knew he was beaten and went to zero throttle...... we started the long tense walk and found her at the bottom of a tree... the damage was amazingly light. Just the front cowling, a bit of the fire wall, the propeller and a couple of holes in the right wing... another one of the club blokes said he would help him to fix it all up... so not too bad considering where she went in... this was the first crash i had witnessed and man did I feel sorry for the pilot. He had just spent the entire day instructing me as well..... Oh well I guess this is part of R/C flying hey...

I am just loving this new hobby and I think I may have caught the bug.... is there a doctor in the house?!!!