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Old 01-01-2003 | 03:42 AM
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Dogz
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Default Expensive lesion learned

I had just bought my second plane about 2 weeks ago and had about 10 fights with it, well yesterday I was out the field and eager to fly so I gassed the plane up started the thing up and taxied down the runway. I hit the gas got up to speed and pulled the elevator down and the plane went up but banked to the left. I used full right but she was still going left and bank into a roll and the rest was history.


NUMBER one lesion check all flight controls before take off. Just cause the plane was fine yesterday doesn’t mean something has changed over night. I believe the left aileron lead came out of the receiver. I was running twin servos for the ailerons.


You hear your instructor tell you to check the plane but until something bad happen it doesn’t sink in……..In has truly sunk in now.