Originally posted by beepee
There is no position to which you can program your flight controls that will save your bacon even a majority of the time....
I was hoping to stay out of this round of ppm vs pcm but here we go again.
fail-safe is not about saving the plane, it's about saving potential victims of the plane by preventing a flyaway and reducing impact (throttle to idle/cutoff).
If I'm not in control, I want my plane on the ground, within the safe confines of the field, not in the windshield of some poor sole on a local highway.
my fixed wing fail-safe settings:
throttle to idle, sticks to the corner
reasoning
reduce impact and distance travelled
my heli fail-safe settings:
- throttle to idle, all other controls on hold
reasoning
best chance of decaying headspeed (inertia) before impact while limiting distance travelled.
I am just not sold on PCM default programming as an answer.
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. If you fly pcm and don't program fail-safe, you've chosen HOLD (default). This is the most likely decision to result in a high speed straffing of innocent bystanders.
