This is my first post, just started in this adictive hobby last Dec. The club I fly with has very few crashes, most of the guys are veterans. I started flying with a Nexstar, soloed and crashed it, stalled on landing. One of our members gave me a 25 yr old trainer to put my engine on and I really learned on it. It was much better to learn on than the Nexstar. A couple of weeks ago I was flying it and was doing very well after making well over a dozen take offs and successful landings, went up one too many times, got too far out and panic set in and I lost it in the woods next to our field, took about 6 or 7 trips back to the wood to find but am now repairing, amazing how tough that old bird is, also amazing how far they really can go.

I too would not have started into this flying thing if I thought crashes were all that common.