Hai-Lee
Old and Bold RC PILOT
Sadly I have seen such symptoms quite often!Sigh......
So this happened today;
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Yea, there's about 8" of airplane missing off the front end of that....
But I REALLY don't think it was my fault!!...
You can see it here... (sory about the phone video, my gopro battery was dead...)
She took off, I climbed with no problem.
Started to turn right... It hesitated a bit....
Then as I was getting ready to turn back she "wobbled" and nosed straight in....
I had no control and couldn't stop it!...
At first, I thought, maybe I had reversed the controls, but I had checked everything out on the workbench at home and then I checked it when I got back home... It binds, but neither servo moves at all...
Anyone seen anything like this before?
It sounds like you had a LOS, (Loss of Signal). Here when club members fit Spectrum to their planes we give special warnings about making sure that the antenna wires are free from ALL other wires and mounted such that the antenna leads are at right angles to each other. In addition we do recommend that spectrum users use the Rx with the satellite antenna/Rx.
With a LoS the spectrum can take a fairly long time to reconnect and a very long time if the plane has SAFE or a flight controller.
Whilst I am only looking at symptoms it is something I get to see regularly especially among the newer pilots and trainees.
Have fun!