I purchased the Flyzone Sky Pilot RTF package and an extra battery, on recommendation of the local hobby shop guy. I watched the dvd that came with it 4 times. I also had the dvd playing while I assembled it and checked it over.

I checked, rechecked, and checked again everything that the video said to be sure of. It belive it was in perfect balance, all of the screws were tight, I cycled the nimh flight batteries two times each.

On it's first flight, full throttle-I gently tossed into the wind, and it sunk like a rock straight down. Broke the front wheel right off. Tried it again, full throttle, into the wind (maybe 2 or 3mph breeze) and again, dropped right to the ground. Upset and disappointed, I checked it all over once again-everything seemed to be in order. Swapped the nimh battery with a freshly charged one. Throttle up, into the breeze-it started to fly (or at least didn't immediately drop to the ground) and then the left wing folded right up straight, and kaboom. It hit the ground-this time breaking the prop, crushing the cowel, bending the motor out of whack, and breaking the wheel shrouds-not to mention the broken wing. Put the wreckage back into my car, and went home with my head down.

It is quite disheartening to have this happen. The guy at the local hobby shop said it would be a piece of cake to learn to fly with this model. I told him I had ZERO experince with aircraft. He said it was one of his best-selling models and I would have absolutely no trouble. Well, here I am, a few days later, with a badly damaged plane.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why it would'nt fly? Does anything come to mind to for any of you pros out there that I might have done wrong? Is there a better plane to learn on than this? Was I duped by my lhs into buying this, just so they could make a sale? To have this happen right from the getgo is not the way to get into the field, as I am seriously considering never trying again.

Any help would be appreciated.