They keep telling me its not IF but WHEN... Today was my WHEN.

Pretty windy today, I took off and flew a couple of laps around the field. I was going to bring it down because it was a gusty wind, changing directions.. Over the trees I tuned righ but the plane tuned left. I should have leveled off and gained altitude But it went down behind the trees and we heard the crunch.
I was lucky to find it pretty quick just hanging on the side of a tree about 30 feet up. problem was I had to stand knee deep in the swamp throwing a rope up. after about 25 tries I go the brance near it and pulled it down. I caught it as it fell so it didnt go into the water...

Not sure what I'm going to do? It needs a new wing and tail repair. The fus has minor damage to the landing gear area.

The issue I have now is this was a 25 size midwest aerostar with a TTpro .36 engine. I was looking at a .60 size four* kit for my next plane but I was hoping to get a little more experience with this trainer 1st...

I want a bigger plane but at this stage I'm thinking I still need another trainer but I want to go bigger and I would also need another engine..

Do I buy a whole new .60 size trainer and save the .36 for some special project down the road?

Maybe an AFR pulse XT or would that be to much for me now?

Sorry, just thinking outloud


Steve