ORIGINAL: ChopperMike
I'm lucky. My airplanes usually don't last long enough for my fuel tanks to get a 'stiffy'.
I never quite understood these kinds of statements. Someone would say don't worry about how long the enigine will last since it'll most likely be damaged in a crash before it wears out anyway. I don't crash my helicopters that often and they're a lot harder to fly than fixed wing! What are you guys doin' wrong?
"Pride goeth before a fall"
I taught myself to fly R/C in 1969 without a crash for three years, other than when a wing failed in flight by breaking in two at the center joint. No mention was made of fiberglassing the wing center section in the instructions (AAMCO). I began to think that I was invicible too.
I seldom crash because of an ordinary dumb-thumb. In fact, I have never crashed due to an ordinary dumb-thumb, although I suspect that will change now that my age is advanced and my health isn't so great. Don't get too smug, Surely there is a bad servo awaiting you, or a poorly welded strap on a battery lurks in the darkness somewhere.
And no, it isn't because heli pilots have superior intelligence. You can forget that one altogether.
Ed Cregger