I'll contribute the Skip Miller "I ain't got it" procedure which I have successfully used. Slowly pull and hold full up elevator - the plane will typically start looping and flopping about the sky giving lots of different angles and reflections of the plane. It also does not come down too fast.
Try it out when you can see the plane to see the behavior. FWIW - Jim Monaco --- Dave Brombaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > I posted this to my club's email list last week, and someone suggested I > post it here as well. > > A week ago today, I was out flying my Compulsion (I loved that plane! > :-(). It was a good distance away, but still well within radio range. > > Clouds were coming in - still high in the sky, but they made a nice > white background upon which to fly. > > I went into a turn, and the nice white wings of the Compulsion > completely melded in with the background. Minor panic, but not bad, > because I thought "No problem, I'll just keep the turn in until I see > the black of the bottom of the wing." > > I never saw it. I tried maneuvering a bit so that I would see a flash > of *anything* - no luck. I finally dropped my landing flaps and hoped > for the best. > > I spent the rest of the afternoon searching for it. One thing I learned > - a 3M plane is pretty big when it's nearby, but when it's potentially > lost in a huge space, it suddenly seems awful tiny. > > I did have my name and address in the airplane, hopefully sometime as > the season goes on, someone might give me a call and let me know they > found it. > > This got me thinking - what kinds of recovery systems do you folks use > in your airplanes (or, do you?)? If I had some sort of transmitter in > it, perhaps I would have had a chance at recovering it. The ideal > 'something' would be a 'thing' that would transmit its location. The > receiver would plug into a GPS, or into a laptop with a GPS, and be able > to say "Bing - your plane is here (give or take 3 meters)." > > Thanks in advance. > - Dave > > P.S. (I've already said it) - I really loved that airplane. A 7037 > Compulsion is an excellent aircraft. > > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/ms-tnef name=winmail.dat RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
