ORIGINAL: JackD

The problem with perpetuating a myth is that you never come to solutions.

I crashed my L39 in BITW. I could have so easily blame the spektrum system (slow turn to the left, until it hit the ground, no failsafe). However, this is not the way I do things...

My dad and I picked everything up, and spent hours and hours checking and hypothesizing on possible situations (like a dr house diagnose). Luckily, I could check the batteries (they didn't break or explode). I had redundant batteries, and one of them was OK, but the other one was completely drained. My regulators where destroyed

So 2 possible scenarios could have happened:
1) one battery died, and the other one wasn't powerful enough to drive the system
2) I forgot to turn one on.

Further analyzing the crash, the plane crashed just before landing, on a full flap configuration. That points more towards scenario 2. The single battery (it was the 6th flight, one probably I should not have done) was not enough to carry through the whole flight, specially with the added load of the flaps down.

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Later
Jack G