Durafly T-28 Trojan - I Crash Testing AS3X For 1st Time

I drove her into the ground like a fence post!!! My goodness. This is what NOT to do when testing out the AS3X system.
So to start, here is what I had in the plane...
Stock Motor & ESC
Rx: AR9350 (w/AS3X)
Radio: Spectrum DX9 (Gen2)
Battery: 3S 4200mAh 40C
This is kinda long but hopefully this will help me and someone else reading this to learn from my mistakes today...
This was the first time I tested the AS3X. You can hear the radio voice call out "AS3X" when I'm flying the plane and when I tried turning it off, I turned the gains up EVEN HIGHER by mistake, to its highest setting.
When I first flipped the switch, I put it in medium gains (50% AS3X gains btw) and this was too sensitive and you can hear me notice it immediately in the video but I still wouldn't use 50% again going forward. Then when I tried turning AS3X off, I got confused by the switch and instead I switched it to the highest gains by mistake and you see how much altitude I lost and how quickly it came down to the ground!!!
As the video shows, the plane was completely and totally uncontrollable at this point. The video says it all as to how quickly things go south (especially the plane - lol).
A lot of the guys assured me it can be fixed and flown again
and it's definitely repairable but I think I may use this one for spare parts since it is discontinued and maybe I'll see if I can find another one online. So we'll see...

[@ccrcflyingclub2584]

A reply to just about all the comments below and I'm sure future comments...maybe after watching the video (or before), be sure to read the description. It explains it all. It was very simple. The gains for AS3X were set at 50% and 100%. Guess which one it was in when it went barreling to the ground in seconds!? LOL! Yep...100% gains. It wasn't nerves, it wasn't inexperienced flying, it was my inexperience with setting the gains via the computer. Trust me when I say this...NO ONE would have been able to fly this plane in 100% gains NO ONE. Don't believe me? Call Horizon Hobby and see what they say. They put it in their planes and would know it's not gonna work. How about this... I was able to control it in 50% gains and that was a true miracle! Hey Bobby, I'd like to see you do that! Btw, I myself am guilty of this too...I watch the video and assume what happened without reading the video description. So that's why I took the time to explain in detail why it happened and I get comments about they "can hear it in the tone of my voice" ???? Yeah Bobby...that was at you. What tone are ya picking up now when you read this? Goodness.... For the record, I LOVE AS3X. It's great...when it's adjusted properly. It was my fault for not understanding the adjustments I made and so lesson learned. For what it's worth, I got this plane flying again and I posted video of it. I have flown it several times since and it flies but it's now a shelf queen hanging in my office.

[@michaelphillips-nxs]

AS3X is spot on! ..like any other part of an aircraft and controls systems it has to be set up and tested properly on ground first.

[@robertmohr6617]

I fly as3x in many planes ,all good ,all set up done in the as3x app ,never a problem

[@rcpete7055]

As3x is a good thing.. it should not cause crashes? It only ever.makes it more stable on my planes?

[@Xenthera]

Don't take this as a personal jab, but I never understood why people go out to fly without having 100% confidence. I've seen so many people go buy brand new planes and fly them into the ground because they weren't confident in their abilities and didn't know what to do when in a sticky situation. I'm not saying that's what happened here because it looks like the plane went full aileron to one side when you turned AS3X, but I also noticed when you took off you were letting the plane fly you. As if you didn't have full control the whole time, and I can hear it in your tone of voice and just how you're acting. My dad was the same exact way, he would expect to go out and fly like I do and put his plane into the ground like you did. I put in a good 200 hours as a kid flying the simulator on my dads laptop and got comfortable in the way a model plane flys, orientation as a pilot from the ground etc etc. That way when I flew my first real model airplane it was like I'd been flying for years. I've never put a plane into the ground because I lost control. (Not to say I haven't crashed, but my crashes were me being stupid and risky [in a way not endangering others]) Anyway I digress. I just wish people would fly a simulator like real flight so there's absolutely no question you can fly the plane exactly where you want it to go sans equipment failure.

[@koalatails6391]

I have been told not to trust auto stabilisation, this was a good demonstration of why. I believe it does work, but only after a process of mechanically trimming the plane perfect, so it needs no transmitter trim. Sorry about your plane.

[@xboxice2005]

Yeah i have a flight stabiliser in mine but took it out after 4 flights :)

[@bradbutler6861]

So this Trojan is a Durafly? Or Eflight? Was wandering what receiver you had as well? Just bought an eflight t28, was just wandering? Thanks

[@xboxice2005]

Durafly yeah :)

[@OhMySack]

Total bummer but... Not intended as an insult but this was way too deep for pilots skill level. At minimum, it seems like a great use of a buddy box rather then having an "experienced" guy there talking and distracting. For a maiden, that radio was set up with way too many options to complete the situation. I have the new DX9 Black with voice & telemetry but it's always best to put ONE new task on the test bed and burn a battery or 2 then move up a step. Building a 90" H9 Carbon Cub right now and the 9350T AS3X rx is going into it. It works great on my small HZ Carbon Cub already. Until it's perfectly set up, trimmed, and tuned in programming and ground checked, nothing goes in the air.