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Old 07-01-2013 | 06:02 PM
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ORIGINAL: slider_buck

well i have had a nitro airstrike now for about 4 years and never have flown it. i finally got the FMS simulator and felt pretty confident on flying it. i took it out first thing this morning and had 5 excellent flights. i came home and decided to go back out to the same spot about 5 hours later. well this time it wasnt so pretty. i made a few passes perfectly and decided to bring it in to fuel it back up. after i fueled it up i took off across the field and took to the air again. about the time that it got 60 feet off the ground it all of a sudden did a complete 360 all on its own and the engine died. luckily i was able to land it ok. well i checked everything out and put it back in the air. the same exact thing happened again. i called it quits after that. hopefully it was just interference from something causing the 360 loop but what would cause the engine to die?
If you were using the stock receiver pack you ran the battery down with 6 flights (5 in the morning 1 in the afternoon). You were lucky to recover the plane, because the VG400 doesn't have failsafe. It is ok to run 5 cell battery pack.