Man I feel for you. Its windy here every day 
Brain farts
OK, Yesterday was a bad day, and to top it off, I pulled a massive brain fart.
Yesterday I threw the Katana P in the car because the wind forecast was great for a change...less than 5mph, and I had a meeting near the club field, so I could spend lunch the field for a change, instead of the alfafa field I usually spend lunch in.
I get to the field, no wind AT ALL, and I'm the only one their! YES!!! I pull out everything, flip the switch on the plane, then the TX, wiggle the sticks...nothing moves :shock: I get this sinking feeling in my stomach. I open the hatch, check the RX...yep, no crystal. I have been migrating my planes off my old channel to the new channel and my computer radio and I forgot to put the new crystal in the RX. The best day I have seen in weeks and it was all shot to hell.
Anybody else pulled some good (bad) ones lately?
Yesterday I threw the Katana P in the car because the wind forecast was great for a change...less than 5mph, and I had a meeting near the club field, so I could spend lunch the field for a change, instead of the alfafa field I usually spend lunch in.
I get to the field, no wind AT ALL, and I'm the only one their! YES!!! I pull out everything, flip the switch on the plane, then the TX, wiggle the sticks...nothing moves :shock: I get this sinking feeling in my stomach. I open the hatch, check the RX...yep, no crystal. I have been migrating my planes off my old channel to the new channel and my computer radio and I forgot to put the new crystal in the RX. The best day I have seen in weeks and it was all shot to hell.
Anybody else pulled some good (bad) ones lately?
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Yeah. yesterday was cloudy, and was misting in the morning, but around lunch it was perfect. You should have been at the field. Just a few little puddles on the runway, dead calm and nobody around!
I'm still sick about it.
How's your work schedule ggibson? I'm tight this week, but next week is looking better during lunch.
I'm still sick about it.
How's your work schedule ggibson? I'm tight this week, but next week is looking better during lunch.
I can only fly on the weekends for the rest of the season. To much stuff
going on.
going on.
man youve only screwed up once...
list over the past year
forgot transmitter
forgot wingtube
dead glow starter
forgot to fix servo before the next flight
Went to fly my foamy in no wind 2 days ago and found I had left the tranny on and it was dead
You should be proud if youve only screwed up once
list over the past year
forgot transmitter
forgot wingtube
dead glow starter
forgot to fix servo before the next flight
Went to fly my foamy in no wind 2 days ago and found I had left the tranny on and it was dead
You should be proud if youve only screwed up once
Yep. Been known to get to the field without the transmitter, or no fuel, or forgot the stupid wing....... We have all done it, some just can't admitt to it. :roll:
Years ago (I was 14 or so) on a final I gave down elevator instead of up elevator. oops, smack, crunch.
I can live with leaving the Xmtr at home. I can live with a dead battery in the airplane. I can live with most airplane related errors as I usually take more than one airplane to the field. The 2 things I hate to forget or do is NO or Dead glow starter (as mentioned before) and or LEAVE MY FUEL AT HOME! :x
I made it to a bunch of ProBro events this year, but wanted to go to Nashville the most... Burrito Bandito, Swick and I rented a van to go the event and we staged all our gear in my garage the night before, met at my house at about 4am, loaded and then left for Nashville...
When I got to Nashville, I could not find my field box..... No starter, no charge leads, extra props, glow plugs... etc. I ended up mooching off of people all weekend. Thanks guys for bailing me out!
When I got home, it was still sitting in the corner of the garage, gel cell on the trickle charger...
When I got to Nashville, I could not find my field box..... No starter, no charge leads, extra props, glow plugs... etc.
I ended up mooching off of people all weekend. Thanks guys for bailing me out!When I got home, it was still sitting in the corner of the garage, gel cell on the trickle charger...
DOHHHHHHH, that sucks!! But you still had a good time right!
We took my sons trainer to the feild for it's maiden flight this summer. He watched me build and cover it all winter and I put it on one of my old TX's. After we got it put together fueled and primed, I pulled the antennea out of the radio... completely out. It took two weeks to get it back from the service center.
My son is 8 years old; it was harder on him than me, I think.
My son is 8 years old; it was harder on him than me, I think.
ive done the chrystal thing but
i had the chrystal somewhere in my car.
-Felix
i had the chrystal somewhere in my car.
-Felix
When I first bought all my stuff, I bought one of those glo starter deals with the wires attached that plugs into your power panel on your field box. It didn't take long for me to get tired of that and buy a rechargeable glo starter. Thing is though that I still keep that one with the wires in my box and it has come in handy when I find out my rechargeable glo starter is dead. Of course I have forgotten to make sure the field box battery is charged! It's an hour drive to my field and I got out there once with a fully charged glo starter but a dead starter battery and no chicken stick.
No, I didn't use my fingers. Slicing my finger open once on the prop of an airboat was enough lesson for me.
Michael
No, I didn't use my fingers. Slicing my finger open once on the prop of an airboat was enough lesson for me.
Michael
Just throw your 12V gell-cell across your car/truck battery (be sure and connect + to + and - to -) -- it'll only take 15 minutes or so to get enough of a charge to run your starter all day.Sky_Dancer said:Of course I have forgotten to make sure the field box battery is charged! It's an hour drive to my field and I got out there once with a fully charged glo starter but a dead starter battery and no chicken stick.
No, I didn't use my fingers. Slicing my finger open once on the prop of an airboat was enough lesson for me.
Michael
Alternatively, use a scredriver-handle as a chickenstick.
I've done both with great success when brain fade has put me in the same situation.
Hand launched my Burritto with the TX on the wrong model backwards rudder and airlerions had to run heh if front of a nice crowd...
Thre my manual glow starter across the 12 lead acid battery in my field box shorted the post and melted all the wires threw out my panels smoked the battery the panels and my manual starter bout a 200 buck brain fart!
Thre my manual glow starter across the 12 lead acid battery in my field box shorted the post and melted all the wires threw out my panels smoked the battery the panels and my manual starter bout a 200 buck brain fart!
Worst brain-fart I ever had: About 6 yrs ago, my first profile ,which was a scratch-built TLAR copy of the Knife, second time out ( it flew great the day before) my brother saw some guys flying, said we should check it out. Charged plane up, put it in the truck and drove 45 minutes to this place. Turned out to be an actual sanctioned club. We had no AMA cards, so we couldn't fly. No one there had ever seen a profile before ( one laughed out loud when I took it out of the truck) so I decided to let their club pres take my new baby for a spin. Turned the switch on, and the tranny, and nothing moved... flipped it again and it worked . Well OK I didn't mark which way was "on".. here , take her up" everyone ooo-ed and aaahhh-ed for a few minutes at the great rollrate and stuff, until Mr. Club Pres. says, "I Don't got it!" held up tranny to show...he don't got it. I had time to walk out beside him as it did a ssllooowww spiral down, hit wingtip... smithereens. Turns out, I guess I left the switch "on" on the plane when we left the house. Next day, bought an ESV and parts for profile #2, which was just like #1, only red.
sounds like you got some real geniouses over there.crazystix said:Worst brain-fart I ever had: About 6 yrs ago, my first profile ,which was a scratch-built TLAR copy of the Knife, second time out ( it flew great the day before) my brother saw some guys flying, said we should check it out. Charged plane up, put it in the truck and drove 45 minutes to this place. Turned out to be an actual sanctioned club. We had no AMA cards, so we couldn't fly. No one there had ever seen a profile before ( one laughed out loud when I took it out of the truck) so I decided to let their club pres take my new baby for a spin. Turned the switch on, and the tranny, and nothing moved... flipped it again and it worked . Well OK I didn't mark which way was "on".. here , take her up" everyone ooo-ed and aaahhh-ed for a few minutes at the great rollrate and stuff, until Mr. Club Pres. says, "I Don't got it!" held up tranny to show...he don't got it. I had time to walk out beside him as it did a ssllooowww spiral down, hit wingtip... smithereens. Turns out, I guess I left the switch "on" on the plane when we left the house. Next day, bought an ESV and parts for profile #2, which was just like #1, only red.
I had a brain fart just a few weeks ago, went out on a PERFCT day and forgot the batteries for my plane, turned it on and nothing moved, so I figured what I had done.
Lucky we are only 10 minutes from the field.
I had a major dumb thumb two weeks ago though, was doing a rolling circuit and hit up instead of down while turning and I stopped rolling and it was inverted heading for the trees and I just lost it , couldnt think, the thought was FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK WHAT DO I DO??? I pulled out with about 5m to spare (not alot at the speed i was travelling) and pulled out and out of the club boundaires :roll: Lucky the club pres was nowhere to be seen.
We all do it sometimes
Fly-guy
Lucky we are only 10 minutes from the field.
I had a major dumb thumb two weeks ago though, was doing a rolling circuit and hit up instead of down while turning and I stopped rolling and it was inverted heading for the trees and I just lost it , couldnt think, the thought was FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK WHAT DO I DO??? I pulled out with about 5m to spare (not alot at the speed i was travelling) and pulled out and out of the club boundaires :roll: Lucky the club pres was nowhere to be seen.
We all do it sometimes
Fly-guy
BRAIN FART!
I did exactly what my signature says not to but I got away with it. Both models were close enough that it would fly sorta close to normal. Landed and switched models on TX and took back off.
I did exactly what my signature says not to but I got away with it. Both models were close enough that it would fly sorta close to normal. Landed and switched models on TX and took back off.
LOL, I did the same thing, but before I took off I always do that cats
Controls-make sure they move the way he should
Aerial-make sure its up
Trims- if they are analog make sure they are where they should be
I do a range check before I start up but dont check controls, except the throttle until I taxi out. The throttle as right and the control surfaces looked to be in the right place but I taxied out and all the controls were abck to front except the throttle, I was on my AFP setup :roll:
I find that the CATS help me alot.
Fly-guy
Controls-make sure they move the way he should
Aerial-make sure its up
Trims- if they are analog make sure they are where they should be
I do a range check before I start up but dont check controls, except the throttle until I taxi out. The throttle as right and the control surfaces looked to be in the right place but I taxied out and all the controls were abck to front except the throttle, I was on my AFP setup :roll:
I find that the CATS help me alot.
Fly-guy
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