Well, first time flying yesterday. Took my clean, flawless, brand new Sig Kadet Senior ro the field. Hooked up with the instructor and went through the plane. Made a few adjustments but everything was pretty good. Gassed up and tuned then ran a tank through my OS46. Started right up, no problems. Ran it a little rich for break in.

Ready for flight. The instructor taxied out (I need to fix a chronic right turn) and took her up to trim it. Flew straight, easy, and stable. He trimmed it out and brought it in for a lookover. Everything seemed perfect.

Love the Futaba 7CAP by the way ... adjusted all the end points by 20%. Its so easy to do everything on that radio!

Next flight. My turn. My intructor uses long stick extensions instead of a buddy box. I liked it. I could keep my fingers on the right stick and "feel" his flying and then do it on my own. He would stand behind me and tap the corresponding shoulder if I needed an adjustment of any kind.

I flew for quite a while on my own. Figure 8's. Nice steady turns, steady elevation, and a good direction out of the turn (most of the time) Sometimes I would keep too much pressure on the elevator and climb out of the turn a little. Worked on it and had a great time. Rolled. Looped. and then ....

I didn't know what it was called, but he had me do a couple Half Reverse Cuban Eights ... ugly, but a short climb, right turn to inverted, and finishing out the bottom of a loop. Cool. Well ... my third one. I was trying to make the loop longer and smoother and it picked speed. On the way down, right when I was pulling up, the right aileron started flapping .... then flapping LOUDER ... then SNAP, chunks of plane started coming off! The wing servo and tray was hanging by its cable from the wing! I realized I was heading for serious trouble and my instructor took over and managed to gain control, fly it in with the rudder from at a pretty low altitude at this point and land her! He gained control quickly and set her down within seconds, hit the runway at an angle and the plane went into the dirt on its wheels. He saved my plane. I would have had a bag of sticks if I was on my own. A few people gathered around my plane to inpect the damage. The wood that holds the servo tray broke and the linkage and servo tray flopped around in the wind and tore things up a bit. Consensus was that this was a weakness that was going to fail at some point. Good thing it was with my instructor standing over my shoulder!

So ... I have to learn to fix this week too. Seems like an easy fix, but I've never covered before. Heading to the LHS today to buy what I need. I might have some questions and need some help with the repairs later.

Hey new guys ... use an instructor!

Kevin