I gotta share my range check story. Went to the field Sunday, last weekend, with my new Sukhoi. I had flown it Saturday, but was using a receiver borrowed out of another plane. So Sat. PM it got its own receiver, new servos on the rudder/elevator (Hitec 6345's, nice for the $$). Sooo, Sunday am I went to do another range check. Range check was 4.0 with engine off, but with engine on I only got about 10 feet away before it started going crazy. "Great" I think, and start thinking about what metal on metal contact I could possibly have that would be inducing that much fluctuation. Well, the throttle servo had twitched and killed the engine, so I looked around the engine, and seeing nothing suspucious, I started up again and started walking away. This time I got more like 20 feet away, but it was back, just as bad as before. Now I'm getting mad, lost a flying day because I'll have to go get another receiver. It's then that I notice that my flying buddy has laid his transmitter down in the shade of my wing while he warms up his Twist.
"Hey" I say, "Is that thing on"

"Yeah"

Well duh. Once he turned off his transmitter, not suprisingly the range check was good. Talk about unnecessary scares.

Andy