what a great video it says all about our hobby what a wonderful world , great great and what a beautiful place to fly

<span style="font-size: large;">+1 to using it as a way to get away from everyday stressers and aggravations.</span>

Ditto to the stresses, one of the fields that I fly from is in the woods. Totally outside of the city the traffic, the bad drivers and the stress. <div>Completely in contact w nature.</div><div>There is a slight problem w that though. Yesterday when I get there there is a family of 4 herons grazing in the grass runway. I ran after them yelling but these are hughe birds, about 5 feet tall so the male was keeping his ground no matter how loud I yelled.</div><div>So I turned my 110 Funtana on, it has a big loud TT120 and chased them away w the plane.....</div><div>They flew away quick. It was funny.</div>

Then there is changes in the same day and the same field. You are flying peacefully and the winds change directions or strenghts. So when you were comfortably taking off right to left, you have to change left to right, from no rudder to a lot of rudder on take off.
when you know all the answers, they change all the questions. Thats the beauty of this hobby.

Here's the other side of this wonderful hobby. After this happened, my heart rate stayed up until I went to be that nite!!!
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: ">After the successful maiden flight of my new PZ T-28 Trojan, my next flight was not so good. I went out again the following day to fly the Trojan again, when disaster struck. I had taken the plane up nicely and the wind was fairly calm, 5-6 mph or so. I'm not sure what exactly happened, but the plane got a bit far away from me and I completely lost orientation. I tried to circle the plane back to me when it knife edged and did a plummet straight into the ground. I immediately went to look for my Trojan, but could not find it to save my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The area we fly in ends in a sloping bank planted with vegetation and trees. Beyond that is a divided 4 lane road. I searched for my Trojan for about an hour and finally gave up. I figured someone must have picked it up.

I was devastated to say the least and the next hour or so of flying my FB Stratos and Super Cub was not very enjoyable. My brother had come to fly his Firebird Commander 2 with us and I told him what happened to my T-28. Well he volunteered to search and came back half an hour later empty handed so I figured at that point, that my plane was lost. After we were done flying, I asked my brother to drive along the road one more time so that we might spot my plane by chance. We drove around for about 15-20 minutes in the general area with no luck. We turned around and were headed back when lo and behold, I spotted a white, orange and red object in a construction area about 3/4 of a mile from where I thought I saw my plane go down. Sure enough, it was my Trojan. I jumped out of the truck and rescued my plane. There was minimal damage the plane itself, but my motor and ESC were fried. The wings were intact as was the fuselage, vertical and horizontal stabilizers and canopy. The wings had come off as designed. The airplane is 100% repairable. I bought the ESC and motor and will fly again on Saturday.

It's times like these that make this hobby interesting.......no?</span></p>

Oh Wow, you were lucky not only to find it but not destroyed. It will fly again, yipiiiii

Hey Lopflyers...don't pay anyone to fix those engines! You can diagnose what is wrong with them in much the same way you diagnose a patient. There is an algorithm...of sorts...that you follow and use to figure out what is wrong. There are basic systems to check and most things can be rationalized so that it makes sense.

The engine presents with an illness and has symptoms! Where have you heard those terms before? And the universe of issues is much smaller than with people by the way...

Anyway, glad to see you enjoy it!

Tom

, that's so true. I'm mostly afraid of damaging the engine by doing something wrong. But what the heck, that's the price of learning.<div>You should have seeing the expression in my face the first time someone told me how you change the bearings.[X(]</div>

great video boys and their toys

Also if you have a bag of those sticks sitting in the back of your car or van, no one seems to care.... but if they see your planes... people will come up and strike up conversations about them....