There was a chap out at the field today flying his plane when he suddenly whistled out loud while trying to attract people's attention and began to shout "switch the controller off, switch the controller off". There was only one other flyer out there and since it was early in the morning, the rest of us were busy gassing or putting our planes together. However when he began shouting, we looked up and saw his plane doing aerobatics all over the place - it was obvious that it was out of control and it subsequently disappeared over and into the trees. As he walked back to the pits, he was cursing that someone must be on the same channel as him but his face turned red with embarrassment, when someone pointed out that all radios were hanging on the impound board and that the cause of his crash was probably because he had forgotten to raise his antenna!

I've nearly taken off with my antenna lowered but this has taught me a valuable lesson!