So after my amazing Sunday Fun fly with my club and me basicly being written off as a full time flyer, I went out and about today doing errands and realized hey im only 15 min from the field after heading upto bestbuy to inquire about some work.


SO I head to the field preflight and voosh off i go the big solo pilot, wel about 7 flights later im like Ok 1 more and im heading home. Long story short, Dead stick On the far side of the Field near the tree line.. Apparently i was pretty far out there and Well Managed to beef it about 60 feet up into a tree.

After some cursing and ranting I went out and assessed the damage. Looked around... hrm wheres the plane.. *Slowly looks up*... Picture a plane hanging from the highest limb of a tree by the front Landing gear wheel....

*Sigh* great.

Insert 1 hour of Climbing a tree with a 30 foot long peice of pipe taped together...
Insert Plane falling gracefully into the Giant *****er bush ...

Insert more cursing and ranting..

insert dumbfounded look when i realized... The only damage was 1 servo arm on my wing and a small punchture throught eh covering of the other side of the wing...





So im checking it over.. trying to see why it went dead stick. (Take in mind Prop still in 1 peice)..

I see carb kinda shaking.. looking closer.. BOTH Carb screws were gone.. and the carb was just sitting in place... im yelling.. Never once in any of my training or manual's did it say to check the carb screws before flight or at any time..

realizing That my carb screws must have worked out somehow and Thats why the engine went out.




Have any of you ever heard of carb screws backing out? is this somthing i should have been aware of?.

im seriously considering calling up hobbico and asking about this because it seems strange that an engine that came with a RTF Should not have screws in the carb back out after maybe 20 flights total on the engine.


Thoughts? Opinions?

None the less im very very gratefull that my plane escaped with minimal damage. hell i think My legs and arms from climbing 40 feet up a tree took the most damage from todays events.