[MT-ALES] Don't be me.....

[Robert Blumer]

Curtis,

What ESC are you using in the plane?

bob

On 7/8/2021 7:20 AM, CURTIS SUTER via MT-ALES wrote:
>
> Don’t be me!  @$*%)#
>
> I am so addicted to this Triangle Racing. I haven’t practiced anything 
> so devotedly in years.
>
> Yesterday morning I’m out all by myself and am flying/practicing and 
> having a great time in marginal conditions.  A bit of overcast and a 
> cool morning.  I launched and flew a few laps and decided to go up for 
> a second attempt.  I always get two launches in F5J per battery 
> charge.  Our field is along a road with some power lines along it.  
> We’ve had a few planes tangle with them and it all cases the woodies 
> survive but the carbon planes, well not so much. I get a couple laps 
> in then am down to about 50-75m and am circling in what I think may be 
> lift on the wrong side of the power lines.  I’m listening to the GPS 
> Vario and notice, that when I try to turn the model it doesn’t 
> respond!  Yikes!  I look at the transmitter and all is good but still 
> no response.  The vario is still beeping away.  She’s just in a nice 
> shallow turn and descending slowly.  I’m about 300m down range so 
> start running, holding the transmitter up over my head and nothing.  I 
> turned the transmitter off and back on with no response.  The model is 
> nice and happy going round and round with just a slight pitch phugoid 
> going on.  I jump the first water line and keep running.  The model is 
> now about over the power lines and much lower and I say to myself 
> please oh please don’t hit them.  It makes it over them and now she’s 
> back over the main field.  Now it’s much lower and over the second set 
> of water lines and I’m like please don’t hit the water line, just land 
> in the nice alfalfa and she’ll be okay. She goes over the line in a 
> slight 20-30 degree bank, pitches up and has a slight stall and as the 
> nose drops the wings level and she lands slightly nose down in the 
> alfalfa in perfect condition!  Whew!  Now that wasn’t fun at all, but 
> it was like winning the lottery.  I opened the hatch and the RC 
> Electronics RC Multi 3 device display was lit up and working. The 
> receiver had no lights nor did the Sparrow GPS unit.  I cycled the 
> battery and no change.  So I walk back to the pickup truck and put a 
> meter on the battery and the three cells read 3.05v, 2.80v and 2.99v.  
> Yikes!  Put in another battery and I flew some more triangles.  What a 
> day!  Best I could do was 2 Triangles all morning, but the model is 
> luckily still in one piece.  That I call a great day!
>
> Curtis
>
>
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