In my humble opinion you made many mistakes in the charging and care of your batteries. I've seen it time and time again where guys think they have to charge their batteries after every couple flights and somehow these same gentleman are the ones who really haven't taken the time to find out anything at all about batteries at all. They have no idea of what the discharge curve of a Nicad or Nimh battery looks like and no concept of how to properly maintain a battery. The internet is full of information for anyone who will take the time to look up everything there is to know about care and feeding of batteries. Before you invest in another plane I would suggest you avail yourself of the vast wealth of information that costs nothing but a little of your time.

On another note I'm sure you will be advised somewhere along the line to switch to LIPO's and to use regulators. That's not the solution either. Throwing a more expensive battery in your airplane is not the solution. You should have been able to fly at least 8 seven minute flights on that 1000mah battery if it had been properly slow charged the night before. You leave out a lot of detals about the complete life of that battery, without which nobody can really say what the problem could have really been. Lack of education is very expensive isn't it??? That was a beautiful airplane. [&o] [&o] []

Good luck in your future Pattern Planes



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Good luck in your future Pattern Planes