Here's a mistake I made once, with one of those fancy 2.4 radios<div>
</div><div>Started up a plane and the controls would not respond.  Engine was WOT.  Thankfully I had the plane restrained.  I turned off the plane (which also shuts down the engine (make sure your fail safes are set up correctly), and I then realized I did not change the model in my TX.</div><div>
</div><div>I made this mistake shortly after I had begun flying a second model.  Always check to make sure you have the proper model program up in your radio before you do anything!  If I had not had the model restrained, at best I would have injured myself, at worst it would have gone out towards the flight line where other people were flying their models.  Now I set the model program in my basement, just before I take the radio off the charger, and then I double check by turning on the model and working the controls.  Then I load the car!</div><div>
</div><div>Bottom line what caused it was my "rush" to start flying that evening.  It was still my first season and had basically flown my Easy Sport trainer all summer and had only recently started flying my first low wing plane.  Thankfully I had done enough "right" to avoid injuring myself or others.</div>