One day last year, I spent most of the day flying with the DX7. I had a Little Something Extra E-conversion that I was charging up and was going to fly that later on that day.

Well, when I was finished flying whatever it was I was flying, I pulled out the LSE and the transmitter, and got ready to fly. I was on channel 11, 72 MHz.

I took off, flew around a bit, and it seemed to behave oddly. It kept going further and further away from me and all of a sudden, I lost it. No control except I did have throttle. So, I idled it and watched as it went out and glided into the woods.

When I found it, only the prop was broken. Lucky.

But the reason I had problems was that I forgot to raise the antenna.. after flying the 2.4 GHz all day, I simply didn't notice that the antenna was not pulled out.

CGr.