My first flight of the year and a maiden flight of my B-day present, SIG Kadet Senior ARF.
This turned out to be quite a joy ride and why we are always harping on beginners to get help with learning to fly or at least get an experienced pilot to trim your airplane out for you.
Everything looked ok. I did a range check with the engine running.Everthing was in order. I taxied out, lined up, checked the controls one more time and and away I went.
As soon as I got in the air the plane tried to turn hard left, I straitened it out but the plane was just plain squirrly. I fought the airplane around the field a couple of times and managed a good landing. I tried to taxi back but the plane would not turn.
After inspection I found that I lost my rudder servo, it does nothing but hum. In flight it was more than just the rudder, it seems the bad servo was making the other servos glitch a bit. Made for quite a ride.
I have no doubt that a beginner would have taken this airplane home in a garbage bag.