[NSRCA-discussion] Pattern nightmare

[Mike Mueller]

Mike
As you can probably imagine I get some pretty wild phone calls here at F3A
Unlimited.
 This reminds me of some of them.
 Everything that could happen bad did.
 Good that it was only a dream.
 Ok calm down and as Phil says maybe look into your prescriptions.
 Dude thanks for the laughs.
 Mike

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 1:05 PM Michael Cohen via NSRCA-discussion <
nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org> wrote:

> I had a dream I got a new pattern plane the other day.  Yes, I really did
> have a R/C dream.  How bad can it be to dream of getting a new bird,
> setting it up, testing systems, and getting in that nerve racking first
> flight?  Well, first, it was a partial retro-design.  Typical trapezoid
> wings and anhedral stab, but the fuse was more like the classical small
> cross section shape.  Kind of like an Element with the body of an old
> Python.  I don’t remember performing the check out at home, but I got to
> the field and trees had grown tall and maybe there was a quarter mile of
> open space in the middle.  Hmmm…  don’t remember them being that close
> before.  Looked down at the plane and what???  Now it had changed?  Even
> smaller fuse, color was different, and it had counter-rotating props and a
> canalizer.  Hmmm…  weird.  Looked up and the field was smaller, the trees
> were almost on top of the flight line and the weather had worsened.  Doh!
> I need to get a flight in quickly.  Not sure what I did next, but I carried
> it out to the flight line and the stabs fell off.  I did not attach them?
> Went to check the controls anyway because maybe I don’t need the stabs.
> The rudder fell off.  What the f…  The world started to swirl around me and
> I woke up!  Well, I can’t be sure if I woke up in the dream or from the
> dream, but then I remembered I had a nice new Invitation in the hobby room
> with an Etude as the backup plane.  Haaaa…..  all is OK, just a nightmare.
> You know sometimes you wake up from a bad dream and you hope your mind can
> disconnect from the stress of it all?  Went back to sleep and I was back in
> the hobby room.  Wait…  that new “dream” plane was there!  What?   Side by
> side fuselages now???   How the heck am I supposed to do a stall turn????
> AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
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