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Old 02-20-2004 | 12:49 AM
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Default RE: New plane - pre-flight check before first flight - share your knowledge!
ORIGINAL: hogbilly

Everyone has seemed to forget one very important item.
Voltage!!!!
make sure the Tx and RX have enough juice.
Yep... there's a good one.

Had a begnner bring his plane out and we did a check on it... even used a ESV on the RX pack... and then promptly after takeoff the plane lost control. another ESV check 9same meter...) verified the battery was flat.

It is a little know fact... you can put a NiCd on charge for an hour with the wall-wart... then up to an hour later it will read full even if that hour was all the charge it had in it. (just about enough poer to check a plane out and take off... not enough to land.)

Check that newbies pack with a loades ESV RIGHT before takeoff. Or the newbie will find a way to fool you into thinking he has a charged battery.
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