ORIGINAL: jrsx-man
Ali,
Again sorry for the loss, but posting pics of the crash was not a good move. Sure they are great pics from a photographic point of veiw, but as you well know as does anyone in the UK, it has been asked time and time again by the BMFA and press to refrain from doing this.
Also FWIW, having had a quick flick through the BMFA hand book on page 36 Section "MODELS BETWEEN 7kg AND 20kg" section (f). It does say bout checking batteries before each flight and advises on battery back-up systems to cope with the servo loads of larger models and I am assuming the Hunter was below 20Kgs.
Can I ask was the Hunter ever fitted with twin batteries and was the battery used on the day usually flown i the hunter and did you give it a check before flight? Just wondering as I know all to well that in the heat of the moment, sometimes we can overlook things as simple as that as "it worked last time" comes into play.
Also on other matther I see from the first pic that the turbine is still producing a good heat trail prior to impact, so I guess the turbine did not have the time to shut down.
Anyway, its all achedemic as you have pointed out that you are getting a bigger and better model anyway.
Hello,
I can understand your post and concerns, but the fact is that this is a hobby that accidents do and will happen, not posting pictures of a crash does not mean they don"t happen, and if the BMFA beleives crashes don"t happen, they have no idea about this hobby. Ali said he was not sure if it was battery related, he did say the battery checked out good after the crash, so a back up battery would have been useless. Ali has been around this hobby for a very long time as a owner and a pilot and I am sure he knows better than most of us when he builds a model, I myself is a fan of redundant batteries, but it does not mean my jets will not crash even if I have redundant power, a better chance of not happening, sure. I am sure when Ali finds out what happened, he will let eveyone know. ALi, I am also sorry about your jet.
Joe C!!