Re: [RCSE] Histart tales Lessons

[Steve Meyer]

At 11:04 PM 4/18/2005, Jim Deck wrote:
- I now ALWAYS do a surface wiggle before I launch and ask flying buddies
to do the same before they do.

One of the early lessons I learned.  Before launch, exercise the planes 
servos.  It's sort of like a sprinter getting ready to bolt from the 
blocks.  My planes take on a life of their own.  :-)

I have been lucky, the only hi-start problem I have was when I had a 
reversed elevator.  This before I had a programmable radio.  Made a real 
nice rainbow into the ground.  Good news it was repaired and flew again.

Another good habit, beginning of day or whenever program is loaded check 
direction.

Steve Meyer
SOAR 

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[RCSE] Histart tales Lessons

[Jim Deck]

I used to fly alone allot.  One day, I was flying my now nostalgic
Sundancer from a histart.  Now, I had developed a rhythm of turn on
transmitter, turn on receiver, pull back, hook up and launch.  That day, I
couldn't seem to get more than 5 minutes and wondered if the plane was out
of trim. One one launch, I forget the turn on receiver step.  The Sundancer
tracked up pretty well and released.  Upon iniiating the first turn, I
discovered my mistake.  The plane drifted off to the right and I thought it
would land in the next field so I scaled a fence (I was younger then) and
tried to keep it in sight - it had started to come down.  Well, completely
unaided by my pilot skills, it hooked a decent thermal and landed very
safely in the side yard of a house about 3/4 mile down wind - total time for
the flight was about 20 minutes.  Lessons learned:
- I now ALWAYS do a surface wiggle before I launch and ask flying buddies
to do the same before they do.
- I now ALWAYS look to see what I'm about to walk through as I got a
terrible case of poison ivy that day.
- Now, I don't always blame the trim as a properly trimmed plane flies well
in spite of the well-meaning pilot.
Older and wiser,
Jim Deck



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