My first plane was a micro sized bind and fly so everything went pretty smoothly.
However, my first attempt at an ARF went horribly wrong. I had practiced many times on the computer trainer and I felt confident and a little cocky. ....lol.... I think that's where I went wrong as the cockiness made me not perform my preflight inspection.
It was an Airfield P51.... beautiful bird and I connected it to my DX7. Went up to the field, plugged in the battery and took a couple runway passes.
Pointed the plane to the wind, throttled up and no more than 5 seconds later, the bird was smashed.
Long story short, I forgot to reverse the aileron servos and when I tried to turn the plane, it went the wrong way. Thank goodness nobody was at the field.... at least it saved me some embarrassment.
It was funny when I heard Bixler say, "All of us have forgotten to reverse servos at one time or another".... made me think of my mistake.
This mistake definitely taught me a very important lesson!
- Kris
However, my first attempt at an ARF went horribly wrong. I had practiced many times on the computer trainer and I felt confident and a little cocky. ....lol.... I think that's where I went wrong as the cockiness made me not perform my preflight inspection.
It was an Airfield P51.... beautiful bird and I connected it to my DX7. Went up to the field, plugged in the battery and took a couple runway passes.
Pointed the plane to the wind, throttled up and no more than 5 seconds later, the bird was smashed.
Long story short, I forgot to reverse the aileron servos and when I tried to turn the plane, it went the wrong way. Thank goodness nobody was at the field.... at least it saved me some embarrassment.
It was funny when I heard Bixler say, "All of us have forgotten to reverse servos at one time or another".... made me think of my mistake.
This mistake definitely taught me a very important lesson!
- Kris