Don't really know which forum to post this in, but I feel at home here, so here goes. Stupid, STUPID!!!!! How do you spell STUPID? Went flying today, raining like crazy, took my Mayhem because the rudder fell off the UCD last night. I'm flying, got the plastic garbage bag over my head, it's hard to see, the 110 sounds a little funny so I think I better bring it in and check it out. After I land I stand stradle my airplane with the elevators against my calves and I'm revving it up to make engine adjustments. Well I hear this stupid beeping. It's my timer. Now you must realize this time cost me my 3rd UCD 40 because I was trying shut it off in a flat spin. Well, this time I'm in the pits, right. Well I shut the throttle off and step off the plane and reach over my radio to shut off the timer. Well, the bag over my head is distorting my vision and I reach a couple of times but can't find the timer. My baggey coat I wearing (cold) snags the throttle. The plane goes ripping accross the pits and slams into a railroad tie on the border. The plane stops but the engine doesn't. The firewall, wheels, tailwheel and I don't even yet know what else just keeps on going. Stupid. Do YOU know how to spell STUPID.
I'll think I'm gonna quit this hobby.
Thanks,
Barry