Good to see you won out after all.

Your story is really illustrative of what our hobby has become.

We used to be required to build our own stuff if we wanted anything to fly. And we learned what needed to be done and how to do it from that 1st step. And after we crashed, we autopsied the remains and learned how well what we had done worked. Forget that scenario nowadays.

Today, the newbies buy what they choose to pay for. And all of them get something they're responsible for. And they've not learned the things that make that possible.

So now they take the sucker out and try to fly it and what happens? Same as in the old days. Yet, for some reason, nowadays a lot of them think the most important details are somebody else's problems. And I've yet to see a newbie autopsy his recently crashed airplane. But seen a lot of them post long descriptions around here.

Thankfully, PointMagu has posted a thread that opens up the learning process for discussion about this particular experience. And he's offered a valuable bit of discussion that actually is worth more than just a specific how-to on one model.

No matter what we pay for our ARFs, we really do need to learn that todays hobby requires us to learn some things about the design, construction, and preparation of our stuff. Because, ultimately, when YOU push that throttle forward YOU are responsible for what happens next. And we really can't expect the present source of ARFs to care one whit, or to actually know the difference between slapping Barbie Dolls together versus P51s.