I took up my Freewing F14 80mm using the afterburner units from Larry via https://fiftytwoeightyrc.com and got some nice relaxed flying in, even with a random fellow chatting with me.

Toward the end, I made the fatal mistake of not listening to my voltage callouts and went up knowing that I should've accepted the harder landing at 21:05. As a result, I predictably lost control, stalled, and slammed into the ground. This broke the fuselage at two points right behind the metal plates of the wings and right at the front where the nose connects to the fuselage, along with destroying the nose gear mount. I could have repaired it but I'd rather be safe with something that weighs 14 pounds and flies overhead, so I've ordered $300 of replacement parts to get back up into the air again.

This is a tutorial on both what to do and what NOT to do. Don't ignore your voltage callouts trying to chase a perfect landing. Better to take a jet home with a less than perfect landing than it is to take a broken jet home that needs serious repairs.

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0:00 Intro
1:24 2x4000 50c Takeoff
2:27 FCS Mixing Adjustment Necessary
3:05 Wing Sweep Pass
3:45 Low Speed Flyby
4:04 Goaround
4:45 T&G
5:35 T&G 2
6:20 Landing w/ Spoilers
7:12 Thoughts
7:48 Spoilers
8:12 Preflight
8:33 2x 5200 Zeee 50c Takeoff
9:40 Wing Sweep Pass
10:30 Visitor
11:30 Flat Spin
12:02 Inverted
12:20 High Speed Pass
12:46 Landing
13:52 2x 5200 Zeee 100c Takeoff
15:22 Landing Tutorial Section
16:16 T&G 3, Advice
16:52 T&G 4, Advice
17:31 T&G 5, Advice
18:33 T&G 6
19:20 T&G 7
20:12 T&G 8, Advice
20:49 Foreshadowing
21:05 T&G 9 Should Have Stopped Here
21:24 Low Voltage Cutoff, Stall, Crash
21:55 Aftermath, Thoughts

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