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Old 06-07-2009 | 02:28 PM
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt">My Titan SE Flamed out today just after I was completing my first circuit of the field and was headed down the runway. With no altitude and nowhere to go I was forced to stay straight and wound up in some tall grass at the end of the runway. Some damage to the jet occurred but it is very minor in the grand scheme of things. I was flying my Panther which has over 60 flights with all the original equipment still on board since new. I did have two mysterious flameouts with this jet early on in its career (around the 14th flight mark) but nothing since. After retrieving the jet I immediately plugged in the GSU....but it was blank!! No power whatso ever. I checked all connections and they were fine. Finally I switched off the Receiver and the transmitter and then turned everything back on. Now the GSU had power (and my pack was reading 7.9 volts) but the display was nothing but hieroglyphics. I again switched off the Transmitter and Receiver and then on again. This time everything appeared normal. I then started the turbine which was completely normal. During running however the GSU (I was in the run mode) stopped displaying the RPM and Temp for a slit second and instead displayed a message that I just could not read fast enough....something along the lines of "has stopped working". It was just as flash and then the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>appropriate RPM and Temp figures returned to the display. I could not get this weird message to reappear. </span></p>