Maximus_Noobius
Noob
For years I had just been flying 2 channel slope soarers, with very limited success. I found that particularly on my 2 metre Freshman, the responses to the inputs were just too slow (at least, that's my excuse for crashing and rebuilding it so many times).
So, I decided, to give myself some more flight time, it was time to try a powered model, and while I'm at it, something with ailerons, maybe I could even learn a barrel roll!
Anyway, after purchasing a Nine Eagles Sky Climber, I took it to my normal slope hill and went through all the pre flight checks. What's a speed controller? Which way should the ailerons go? Seems straight forward, just throttle up, toss it into the wind as per usual and get some altitude while you work out this aileron thing! I decided I would go "mode 2" because I was accustomed to using rudder on my right hand... and since ailerons would be doing the turns now, it was a logical choice to put rudder on the left???
Well, this is what happened... I pushed the throttle up to 90%, coughed on some adrenaline, then threw the glider into the wind and in my haste to quickly grab the transmitter and "level out the wings" I accidentally flicked the throttle back to zero. (Now I understand the Hero to Zero thing). So, although I levelled out the wings nicely, the lack of thrust... well... I think you know where we go from here... DOWN! Nose dived straight into the spikey tree/shrub that was about 10 metres in front of me (That was the shrub that wouldn't come into play, since I would be soaring WAY over it.) It was only after the crash, when I went to "power down" the throttle, that I realised what had happened.
Not too much damage, I've been flying since... but now you know why my handle is Max Noob. Onward and upward.
So, I decided, to give myself some more flight time, it was time to try a powered model, and while I'm at it, something with ailerons, maybe I could even learn a barrel roll!
Anyway, after purchasing a Nine Eagles Sky Climber, I took it to my normal slope hill and went through all the pre flight checks. What's a speed controller? Which way should the ailerons go? Seems straight forward, just throttle up, toss it into the wind as per usual and get some altitude while you work out this aileron thing! I decided I would go "mode 2" because I was accustomed to using rudder on my right hand... and since ailerons would be doing the turns now, it was a logical choice to put rudder on the left???
Well, this is what happened... I pushed the throttle up to 90%, coughed on some adrenaline, then threw the glider into the wind and in my haste to quickly grab the transmitter and "level out the wings" I accidentally flicked the throttle back to zero. (Now I understand the Hero to Zero thing). So, although I levelled out the wings nicely, the lack of thrust... well... I think you know where we go from here... DOWN! Nose dived straight into the spikey tree/shrub that was about 10 metres in front of me (That was the shrub that wouldn't come into play, since I would be soaring WAY over it.) It was only after the crash, when I went to "power down" the throttle, that I realised what had happened.
Not too much damage, I've been flying since... but now you know why my handle is Max Noob. Onward and upward.