ORIGINAL: CGRetired

Third crash since November. There must be something that you are doing wrong and need an outside look at what it may be. Consider having an instructor work with you for a couple of flights to see if he/she can identify what you may be doing wrong. Perhaps it's something simple, perhaps it's a basic step that you either are missing or getting wrong.

How do the crashes happen? Are they on landing? Take off? During flight? During a maneuver? Think about it and see if there is something you can correct.

By my sign-in name, you may gather that I was in the Coast Guard for quite some time (CGRetired). Well, we used to have a ''safety standdown'' two or three times a year. The purpose was to examine our routine and see if something was getting to routine and we may be doing something that we either ignore or just plain take for granted. It helps, believe me. We had a training session one day that discussed the ''chain of events'' leading up to an accident. Any break in the chain would prevent the accident. So, we would look at things we did that led to some sort of accident, no matter how low level it was, and then see what we could have done to change events, to break the link in the chain and prevent that accident.

The same goes with RC. But, it takes a little effort to sit down and think things through and come up with that one thing, or those several things.. those several links that led to the chain of events that ended up in an accident. Believe me, it works.

CGr.