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Old 03-21-2004 | 01:38 PM
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Default RE: GSP ARFs- Whose Responsible

I love it when some guys in the post start redirecting the comments on each other instead of the issue on hand.The bottom line is your responsible for the plane and you must carry ama incase of an accident. If you see something that is unacceptable and needs to be fixed or rebuilt, it's your resposibility to take care of it. You bought a plane and by not returning it because you felt it was acceptable is now the agreement that you will take the responsibility of completing it and making it safe for operation. If it fails due to a broken spar or former inside where it is not accessible to you, it is something that is their responsibility. But you have to prove that there is no damage to the structure that was prior to the failure. This is hard to do, being that the models are mianly wood and after it fails it will impact the ground. Now we have to seperate the failure from the impact damage. Half of the reasons that are given for aircraft crashing are wrong. The only advise I can give you is if you want to verify the accident data, buy an Eagletree flight data recorder and look at your servo imputs and compair that to what happened. This is where you can justify a servo pulling from the rails, it would show the servo moving and your flight would indicate no surface deflection.I'm not that gun-ho about pointing fingers and I already accept responsibility for the plane everytime I fly. If I lose it I will move on and not try to make someone take the fall for something I did or didn't do. We all take that caculated risk everytime we fly, it is something we as fliers must agree apon, I had planes that last 10 years and some that lasted only 1 flight. It is pointless to try to take it to court, any lawyer will chew the case up and spit it out on your feet.