RE: Discouraged...
I feel just the same, the problem is, that with RC you have the impression that the machine is under control and so will survive, forget it and take up FREE FLIGHT.
This is ideal, you know if it crashes it was not your fault, it was the wind or that particular balsa magnet tree. You will come home when the model is lost or broken.
There is no disappointment involved, you knew it was going to happen anyway. Free Flight is also character building.
old git ------ aka John L.