[NSRCA-discussion] Stupid accident

Phil Spelt chuenkan at comcast.net
Mon Aug 24 13:57:35 AKDT 2009 

Well, Jon, *I* mark the FLAP channel servo and Rx 
leads -- does that make me weird, or what??? :-Dmao

It does save me from reversing them -- since I 
use spoilers for landing, it means the spoilers 
go UP as they should, rather than DOWN...

At 11:09 AM 8/24/2009, you wrote:
>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. Â  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. Â  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! Â  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 FLYINGÂ 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..."Â  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 
>Â 
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>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... Â  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. Â Consequently, 
>John Fuqua asks me to "wiggle the sticks" before 
>carrying the airplane out; it's saved my 
>airplane twice already. Â  Ron VP Â  On Aug 22, 
>2009, at 4:44 PM, Jim Quinn wrote: Â  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. Â  Jim Quinn 
>Â  Â 
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>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, 
>Â  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 starttling 
>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. Â  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. 
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