Fred

Yea the look on your face was certainly not one of being happy. I felt your pain but nothing I could have said or did at the time would have helped so I just left you alone until you started talking on your own. You'll do just fine on the next one. Guys what happened to Fred is he was coming out of a half cuban (see the picture of the plane inverted) and I was just about to take the next shot and saw the tree that is way out come into the camera view and at that time I realized he was getting a bit low, I started to remove the camera from in front of my face to tell him to push up but it was just in time to see him pull hard to upright and then fly a few feet and roll over and in she went. Sometimes, the problem at the club where we fly at is certain pilots do not look out where they are going and 3 planes were converging on one space, Fred did what he could to avoid the issue and it cost him his plane in the end.

We had just lowered the elevator throws (1/2 half of what he had) and he had just moved the CG forward by 1/2 inch and a test flight showed the plane to be exactly neutral and he was loving life with the new setup. I even had a few minutes on it during the second flight of the day and had a blast. I think Fred was amazed that I could get it into a KE spin with only around 1/4 elevator throws and he even attempted it once