Maybe they changed the mission in the past few years. I don't have any problems crashing, although I always need to increase the brightness on my hud. I had a really hard time with this one at first, especially that one tight turn toward the end. The problem wasn't that I was going too fast. I was going too slow so the aircraft couldn't turn. It needs some speed to make a tight turn. When you start making tighter turns it is really important to increase throttle, which can feel counter-intuitive when it seems like the aircraft it trying to keep tight turns. If I keep it at around 500 kph, it is actually pretty easy. But it took me dozens of attempts to learn this. Also use the rudders to help the aircraft stay low and don't get up too high when pulling back on the stick in a turn.