If you're still just learning to fly, Id stay away from slopes and hills. They are too turbulent and especially landing is a challenge
Go somewhere nice and flat and preferably when there is very little wind. Oh, and with no houses nearby
Then get the hang of it. Revisit the slopes once you are comfortable flying her in easier conditions.
Also, kinda hard to judge from the photo, but I have to agree with the previous poster that your plane was almost certainly fixable with little more than glue and carbon. It wouldnt look as nice, but thats actually a benefit if you are still prone to crashing
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Thanks ZoomNBoom,
For me, 'Learning to Fly' is a lifelong effort. So I'm not 'just' learning to fly. My goal is to eventually own an RC plane like the one I built 20 years ago and crashed between the double yellow on the road at a place I call 'Rattlesnake Hill'. I flew that plane for about a year before I tried to get one more flight with a battery that was too low. It was a sweet plane, and I still have the wing. It delaminated in one particular area, and I feel I could probably inject some resin and build another fuse. That's a future project.
My goal is to get to the point where I can launch and hand catch it so the plane never touches the ground, thus extending the life of the plane for years and years (one can dream, right?)
That was then, this is now. That plane had a wing with a fiberglass skin over a foam core and a scratch built 'contest balsa' fuse. It was similar to the ASK-21 in wing plan. I could float it in a 5 mph breath of air coming up the slope, or I could ballast it and fly it in a 20mph wind.
That was then, this is now.
My skills from back then are gone and I'm 'Learning to Fly' to get them back.
I learned a couple things from losing the plane:
1) stay with the 'stock' set up-
I'd swapped out the ESC, and because it had a T connector,
I put in a larger 2200 mAH battery, shoving it back as far
as I could to get it's larger weight close to the CG
so the plane handled much differently
I'm convinced that is why I lost it.
2) The Hill is convenient, but challenging
Launch and fly in the direction away from the houses
When the air is below 10 mph, fly the Radian UMX . . .
instead of the Radian Pro there.
3) Get more time at a 'flatter' site with the Pro
(there are no truly flat sites nearby)
I really want a lot of time on the Pro,
so be conservative, learn to not let
frustration get the best of me
I will eventually fix the wings. To get back out fast, I bought another Radian Pro, fixed the Fuselage, put the new ESC and Canopy and wings on it. That gives me a spare Fuselage, with motor, Rx, servos and horizontal stabilizer. I'll probably buy a third Radian Pro, so I have a pristine pair of wings. I will eventually fix the broken wings and put the ones I'm using now on the shelf for later.
I'm very committed to get as much practice in with the Radian Pro to learn all the things that are involved with RC flight, from Batteries, to Mixing, to Flight, to restoring broken pieces to 'like new' condition.