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<font size=3>Well, Jon, *I* mark the <u>FLAP</u> channel servo and Rx
leads -- does that make me weird, or what???
:-D</font><font size=1>mao<br><br>
</font><font size=3>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...<br><br>
At 11:09 AM 8/24/2009, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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@idseng.com> To: General pattern discussion
<nsrca-discussion@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 thatÂ
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@sc.rr.com> wrote: From: Jay Marshall
<lightfoot@sc.rr.com> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Stupid
accident To: "'Gen eral pattern discussion'"
<nsrca-discussion@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@lists.nsrca.org
[<a href="mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org" eudora="autourl">
mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces@lists.nsrca.org</a>] 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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jpavlick@idseng.com To: nsrca-discussion@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
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http://www.idseng.com</a> ----- 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 Â
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.
 Jim Quinn  Â
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"Atwood, Mark" <atwoodm@paragon-inc.com> To: General
pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion@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.Â
 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.Â
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
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