I seem to have developed an issue with light posts. For those of you who are fans of Phoenix, the standard launch path is straight into a light post, which upon contact with planes creates confetti. I can testify that simulated impacts with this post are extremely realistic... I killed my p51 there yesterday, after re-fitting a new motor and shaft, with the intention of seeing how much better it looked in the air with the stupidly large spinner that came with the kit. I had to take off to the west, and turn south soon after, and slammed it into the lightpost. The plane was a writeoff.
Like they say in the movies, tomorrow is another day.
My only other operational plane was my Tuff Trainer, which I've decked out with LEDs for night flying. I took the kids out to a different oval. I put my new 9x receiver in and set the trims approximately to what I usually have it, but they weren't quite right. The rudder drifted the plane to the right, in between a tree and a light post at the end of the oval. Inexplicably, as I was trying to bring the plane back through this gap, it crashed into the light post. Two planes in two days. At least the Tuff, being tough, is fixable.
I asked my wife if she installed a light post magnet in my planes, which she denied. Perhaps I'm slowly morphing into a moth. Either way, somebody make it stop!!!!!!!!
Like they say in the movies, tomorrow is another day.
My only other operational plane was my Tuff Trainer, which I've decked out with LEDs for night flying. I took the kids out to a different oval. I put my new 9x receiver in and set the trims approximately to what I usually have it, but they weren't quite right. The rudder drifted the plane to the right, in between a tree and a light post at the end of the oval. Inexplicably, as I was trying to bring the plane back through this gap, it crashed into the light post. Two planes in two days. At least the Tuff, being tough, is fixable.
I asked my wife if she installed a light post magnet in my planes, which she denied. Perhaps I'm slowly morphing into a moth. Either way, somebody make it stop!!!!!!!!