<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>To answer your question, at least 10,000 last year alone. It's a pandemic!<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Feb 14, 2012, at 3:47 AM, Keith Hoard <<a href="mailto:khoard@gmail.com">khoard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Just how many airplanes have we seen fly out of caller's hands at contests? Is this a widespread problem, or just isolated to a couple contests? Why can't the caller maintain positive control of the airplane until the owner gets over to disconnect the battery? If the caller and/or pilot are that distracted after a flight, what is to keep them from forgetting to removing the arming plug? <br>
<br>I think this is a solution wandering around looking for a problem. If you can't remember to disconnect your battery as soon as possible after a flight and to only connect it just prior to flight then you won't remember to use your arming plug to perform the same functions.<br clear="all">
<br>Keith Hoard<br>Collierville, TN<br><a href="mailto:khoard@gmail.com">khoard@gmail.com</a><br><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Bob Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob@toprudder.com">bob@toprudder.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit" valign="top"><div>Ok, sounds like an EMI problem with the ESC. Some sort of stray electrical noise is coupling onto the ESC (possibly through the throttle input). </div>
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<div>Regardless, disconnecting the battery or arming plug would have prevented the situation. Point taken.</div>
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<div><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 2/13/12, Mark Hunt <i><<a href="mailto:flyintexan@att.net" target="_blank">flyintexan@att.net</a>></i></b> wrote:<br></div>
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<div><span>Myself, among others witnessed a speed control (rx off) turn on violently during an interesting test in which the pilot showed us what a ringing cell phone can do when placed next to an armed speed control. No, I don't know the brand of ESC.</span></div>
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