ORIGINAL: P43W
Thanks for your replies so far guys, wel maybe I should not have used the term mist, since we do not have real mist here. It was just water from the rainy day. And yes we did check the bateries, they were both in excellent condition. we do not have any power nor radio towers in a radius of about 3 miles. If it was some communication interference there would not be any reason for the other planes not to get it. We are a small but very close nit club so it fell like it was everybody's plane that crashed, since everybody was trying to figure out what happened.
Anyway if anyone else has any ideas, please lets discuss them since we reeeaaaaaly realy are trying to figure this one out. Also we have to other friends who bought new gassers, like mines and are now very hesitant to put them in a plane. Eventhough, as I said b-4. People have been flying gassers for a while now. But the happenings seemed to have been too coincidential.
Hoping to hear frm you all. Regards
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Were there any military vessels in the ocean nearby? They do not always abide by the same radio rules as the rest of us.
With a gas engine operating normally, there is still a bit of "RF noise" being generated, even though it is not usually enough to affect your control. Add to this any extraneous RF noise, such as a passing military vessel, an official vehicle with HF/VHF radio equipment onboard, etc., and you have an opportunity for the noise floor (radio talk for background noise) to be higher than normal. More noise floor, but same Tx signal, can often lead to loss of control. Even weather phenomenon (called ducting) can cause competing signals to be received from normally out-of-range sources. Couple the higher background noise with the noise that all ignition systems generate and you could have an explanation to your problem. This is why I harp on folks to keep their system as "RF clean" as possible. You never know when something is going to happen that will add to the noise floor and rob your receiver of a coherent Tx signal.
As others have suggested, check your batteries, chargers (many a model has been lost due to a lying/defective charger) and other support gear.
I'm sorry to learn of you and your buddy's loss, but, as we all know, it is normal to lose a model now and then, even when our thumbs didn't cause the loss directly.
I wouldn't give up on gas engines. Normally they work just fine when set up carefully, as it sounds yours and your friend's were. Good flying.
Ed Cregger