[NSRCA-discussion] Stupid accident

Mon Aug 24 07:09:59 AKDT 2009

I just put a small tiewrap on the both the right aileron receiver and 
servo leads.  Match them up, and I'm good.  I do this on every plane I 
have, so it is consistent.

Jon Lowe

-----Original Message-----
From: John Pavlick <jpavlick at idseng.com>
To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Mon, Aug 24, 2009 10:02 am
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Stupid accident

Yeah but that only happens on the first (and last) flight of a new 
airplane. LOL Once you get the plane trimmed out it's probably OK to 
just wiggle the sticks and make sure everything moves.

Here's another thing that can go wrong without being noticed: how many 
times have you plugged each aileron into the wrong channel? In other 
words the left aileron gets plugged into the channel that's programmed 
for the right aileron and vise versa. This doesn't reverse the 
direction but the trim gets messed up. A trick that I learned from Joe 
Lachowski was to use JR extensions on one servo and Rx channel and 
Futaba extensions on the other. It's pretty hard to plug the wrong 
servo in this way even if you're wiring is a chaotic mess.

John Pavlick

--- On Mon, 8/24/09, Jay Marshall <lightfoot at sc.rr.com> wrote:

From: Jay Marshall <lightfoot at sc.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Stupid accident
To: "'Gen
eral pattern discussion'" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 10:35 AM

Just “wiggling” doesn’t do it. After changing servos, I “wiggled” and 
everything was fine .. until airborne. The new servos rotated the 
opposite direction and the ailerons were reversed!

Jay Marshall

-----Original Message-----
 From: nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org 
[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Richard 
Strickland
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:28 AM
To: General pattern discussion
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Stupid accident

There was an old saw about pilots who had landed gear up this reminds 
me of: "There are two types of pilots--those that have landed gear up 
and those that are going to.." And then a few--well actually many years 
ago--there was another article in FLYING by a guy who had landed gear 
up for the second time...  So he changed it to: "There are three types 
of pilots--those that have, those that are going to--and those that are 
going to again..." 
I lost a perfect Tipo 750 way back and
  a nice Temptation more recently by not plugging in the ailerons and 
was distracted both times during assembly--and not wiggling the 
surfaces prior to take-off.
RS

------------------------------------------------------------

From: jpavlick at idseng.com
To: nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:53:11 -0400
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Stupid accident

Been there done that. But only once... so far...

John Pavlick
http://www.idseng.com

----- Original Message -----

From: Ronald Van Putte

To: Jim Quinn ; General pattern discussion

Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 5:50 PM

Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Stupid accident

My favorite "trick" is to neglect to attach the aileron servo 
connections if I am disturbed while assembling the airplane. 
 Consequently, John Fuqua asks me to "wiggle the sticks" before 
carrying the airplane out; it's saved my airplane twice already.

Ron VP

On Aug 22, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Jim Quinn wrote:

Wow! I saw these planes at Toledo and the Nats! I'm really sorry. They 
were/are beautiful trophy winners in Toledo. I agree with Don, make a 
routine and stick with it. A good budfdfy of mine recently had 9 
stitches from a mini electric (smaller than a 1/2 glow) when his 
throttle went to high, he grabbed the wing and the plane20spun around 
and struck his hand.

Jim Quinn

------------------------------------------------------------

From: "Atwood, Mark" <atwoodm at paragon-inc.com>
To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 2:45:03 PM
Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] Stupid
 accident

Hey All,

Had a bad morning this morning because I got careless, and because I 
altered my normal habits. I normally have my neck strap tucked into my 
shirt starting the airplane, but this morning I simply clipped it onto 
the Tx while it was sitting on the ground.   Started my primary Black 
Magic, had it sitting on idle, picked up my Tx and somehow turned the 
Tx funny such that the strap bumped the throttle…enough to make the 
plane jump forward startling me.  In the split second that I moved to 
catch it, the strap moved the throttle higher and before I could 
recover it, it slammed the wing into the table next to me hard enough 
to snap the entire fuselage into two pieces. 

I was very fortunate that no one was injured and that no other 
equipment was damaged, but I was crushed to watch (in slow motion of 
course) such catastrophic damage occur to the plane.  They’re just=2
0not 
meant for that type of abrupt side load.

Anyhow, just wanted to throw out the warning.  I’ve picked up my tx 
1000 times without incident, but seldom do I have the strap attached.  
Just not my routine. But one odd movement can make things go VERY 
wrong, VERY fast.  Be careful, be methodical, and don’t change your 
habits.

Mark

PS, probably repairable over the winter.  Fuse is in 2 pieces with a 
lot of damage, and the wing that hit is pretty messed up.  It’ll be a 
project for sure. 

_______________________________________________

NSRCA-discussion mailing list

NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org

http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion

------------------------------------------------------------

_______________________________________________
NSRCA-discussion mailing list
NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion

------------------------------------------------------------

Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. Try it 
now.
-----Inline Attachment Follows-----

_______________________________________________
NSRCA-discussion mailing list
NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
http://lists.nsrc
a.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion

_______________________________________________
NSRCA-discussion mailing list
NSRCA-discussion at lists.nsrca.org
http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion