It was a nice evening here and the wife was out of the house for the evening. I thought I would head over to the field and get in a little stick time. It was nice having the field all to myself. But the problem was the wind. I am flying an Avistar with an OS 46AX. With a 11x4 prop at 3/4 throttle it would only move forward about 5mph when heading into the wind. When it came time to land it was really tough. I was lucky the only thing that broke was the needle valve bracket. But I am not exactly sure how that happened. I got hung in the wind and just made a slow landing, but the plane bounced and tipped over and killed the motor. I did not have any grass or mud in the needle valve and I did not land on the concrete runway. And the bracket was just snapped. It did not bend and there was not even a scratch on the screw for the valve. But the real kicker was as soon as I landed the wind completely died for the hour. Go figure.

Crashburn69,

I live in Cross Lanes..... What field do you fly at?

Winfield at the Hillbilly club. And you?

Ah..... Rats...... [&o]. This thread is NOTHING close to what I hoped it would be about! Seriuosly, though, I'm glad you came out of this relatively unscathed. I am terrified to fly in wind.[X(].... But I tell you what, I'm going to fly the SIM in heavy X-winds and I HOPE, I'll be able to handle it when I do try it for real.

Yeah nothing like listening to your engine wind up and not going anywhere fast. The worst thing is dont panic and try to hurry it. If I would have had a flame out, then I would have been in real trouble. And I just got anxious because I had been in the air awhile and was worried about my fuel level, so I did not go around again. Thats what I should have done and just been a little easier on it and it would have not had a scratch.

Shame on you for having your mind in the gutter, besides its the wrong forum for that one lol.

Next time you could at least post a pic of your wife!

RUT ROW RAGGY careful now.