RE: Showtime
Well my showtime is no more...
3rd flight today, just after takeoff went vertical for about 150 ft and flipped ailerons to high rates (i keep elevator on high). did a blender with a long decent with just ailerons then another pretty long pause with the ailerons and rudder. then i went to flaten it at the bottom and it never flattenend out. by this time i was about 40ft up. so i gassed it to pull it out..It still didnt pull out and kept spiraling into the ground still at full throttle trying to pull it out.....
after examining the wreckage i found nothing out of the ordinary. so we hooked the battery up after we figured it wasnt going to explode (Li-Po).. as soon as i hooked it up i noticed that when it crashed the ailerons were in high rates and the elevator was in low rates.. so i concluded i crashed it due to pilot error.. low rates were not enough to pull it out of the blender.. that coupled with high rates on ailerons created a MAJOR fight trying to save it.. I SHOULD HAVE CHECKED BOTH SWITCHES BEFORE GOING ITO THE BLENDER[:@]..
I will have to wait a week or so but i am ordering another.. IT destroyed the fuse,cowl canopy,wing tube, damaged 1 wing,(the SFGs were not on), so now i have spare parts for the next one. it also broke my needle valve on my YS-110... hopefully there are no bent pushrods.. the ground was fairly soft where it hit but like i said it was at full throttle.. i backed off but dont know it it had hit by then or not..