Un-safe switch design in the Futaba 9C
01-03-2004, 11:41 AM
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RE: Un-safe switch design in the Futaba 9C
I belive this man is concerned about this happening again, With a way worse ending. To make light of it is not rite. I have been around this hobby for years and have made mistake too. And have seen others do the same that have been very dangerous.
Lets just keep it in mind this can be a very dangerous hobby.
Blackie, I have a few friends that have that radio , I will tell them to keep what happen to you in mind.
JWA
Lets just keep it in mind this can be a very dangerous hobby.
Blackie, I have a few friends that have that radio , I will tell them to keep what happen to you in mind.
JWA
01-03-2004, 12:28 PM
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RE: Un-safe switch design in the Futaba 9C
Warbirdnutty
Your missing the point here. It is one thing to have an
accident, it is another to turn around and post all over the
web the Futaba is unsafe .
Blackie
That is my baby picture. My mother thought I was cute.
You ought to see me now :-]
Your missing the point here. It is one thing to have an
accident, it is another to turn around and post all over the
web the Futaba is unsafe .
Blackie
That is my baby picture. My mother thought I was cute.
You ought to see me now :-]
01-05-2004, 01:12 AM
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RE: Un-safe switch design in the Futaba 9C
This Is Not The First Time I've Heard of This! And with Many types of radios!
I have heard complaints from fellow modelers about this problem with SEVERAL types of radios, not just Futabas. I have a friend that crashed a plane because he inadvertently shut off his radio on final approach while trying to decrease his throttle trim. That radio was an older Airtronics Vanguard 4 or 6 channel transmitter, (one that nearly all of us have owned, or at least seen). The on/off switch was nearby the throttle trim, just below the neck strap eyelet and it also moved in an "up/down" configuration, like the trim. Although it doesn't seem "dangerous", we have witnessed many fellows have terrible crashes, even experienced flyers. My friend took a pair of lineman's pliers and actually ripped off the on/off switch on his Airtronics. (His Airtronics "switch" was actually a switch "cover", and removing it did not destroy the on/off function, as there is a smaller, indented, much harder to reach switch under it, and worked fine that way.) Blackie's post serves to remind us all of the potential danger and to plan around it! Thank you! Jovee/researcher
PS: By the way, being surprised/assaulted by the business end of an OS-91 is no laughing matter!
I have heard complaints from fellow modelers about this problem with SEVERAL types of radios, not just Futabas. I have a friend that crashed a plane because he inadvertently shut off his radio on final approach while trying to decrease his throttle trim. That radio was an older Airtronics Vanguard 4 or 6 channel transmitter, (one that nearly all of us have owned, or at least seen). The on/off switch was nearby the throttle trim, just below the neck strap eyelet and it also moved in an "up/down" configuration, like the trim. Although it doesn't seem "dangerous", we have witnessed many fellows have terrible crashes, even experienced flyers. My friend took a pair of lineman's pliers and actually ripped off the on/off switch on his Airtronics. (His Airtronics "switch" was actually a switch "cover", and removing it did not destroy the on/off function, as there is a smaller, indented, much harder to reach switch under it, and worked fine that way.) Blackie's post serves to remind us all of the potential danger and to plan around it! Thank you! Jovee/researcher
PS: By the way, being surprised/assaulted by the business end of an OS-91 is no laughing matter!
01-05-2004, 02:32 AM
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RE: Un-safe switch design in the Futaba 9C
I am sure many of you have seen switch covers on military aircraft. We are modelers, improvisers and plane crazy, just make a switch cover for it. 
