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Old 04-27-2005 | 09:32 PM
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iatorres2002
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From: pasadena, CA, US MINOR OUTLYING ISLANDS
Default What went wrong?

Can somebody please help me solve this mistery? I'm wondering what went wrong during a tailwind takeoff I performed this morning.

I had always known I was not supposed to take off with a tailwind, but since this was the only way I was going to be able to takeoff at the flying field I was at, I decided to take off with a tailwind thinking it was not going to be a problem.

The plane picked up speed amazingly fast during the take off run (due to the tailwind), I rotated it after about four seconds and it started to climb, when it was about 10 feet above the ground I noticed it did not want to climb anymore; as a matter of fact, it was descending! so I gave it full aft elevator to make it go up and the plane went down as if my elevator was reversed.

I checked my elevator after the crash and it was fine. If I pulled the stick back on the remote control, the elevator moved up and if I pushed the stick forward, it moved down. I know my elevator servo was not reversed.

What went wrong? Could it be the taildwind reversed the effect of the elevator or was that a take off stall? Can a take off stall occur at what seemed to be a high ground speed?