Busted my trainer switch on my tx. I'm grounded untill the switches come in from hitec now *sigh*.
-John

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Guess it is time to solo!


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Assuming you haven't done anything special with your radio, can't you just swap which one is the buddy box?

Lol on the solo Unfortuatnly not about switching tx's. The trainer box that is used is a old 4 channel futaba with out a crystal or batterys. Actually I'm not even sure if I saw a trainer switch on it. so no good there But I called hitec, and they're sending out hte switches tomroow priority mail, so I should get them in a few days. Still fustrating. Boy i've had a day.... may as well give the whole scoop on today.

Well, I finish up with some stuff around the house and decide to go swing by the feild and see if anyones out there. I load up my car, and go to LHS in nashua nh cause I needed to pick up a muffler assembly bolt that somehow vanished. I pick that up and just gonna go straight down rt 3 to the feild. I'm almost past the exit I normally take to go home, and I have a thought.... wasn't I using the sim last night. I grab my tx off the front seat and look down to the big old hole where the cyrstal should be. DOH! So ok, no big deal. Just like 45 mintues more driving time. I go home and grab the crystal. Head back out. Decided to take the highway rather then the back roads I prefer cause it's a little quicker. Now somehow I compleltly space out gettin of 95 and wind up on 3N instead of the middlesex turnpike. Doh! No problem.... I got up a exit and take 62. Not use to coming onto 62 from that directino and wind up going the wrong way. So a u-ee-ing I go. Finally I get to the field. Some cars there. Yay thinks me. I get out of car and go around to pull my stuff out. Pull the wing out, and find out I had crushed the sheeting on the bottom tip of the wing by accident when I shut the door.. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!! Back home I go. Get the wing fixed, pack up again, and head out once more. Around 3:30 now when I had expected to be at the field at 12:30ish. I finally get the field at around 4. Pull my stuff out again, and drag it all out to the pits. Then I discover the busted trainer switch.... *sigh*. What a day.

Sometimes it just doesn't pay to get out of bed.[&:]

indeed grumpy. Just one of those days

go to almost any electrical store and you can get the mini switches, i changed all my trainer buttons on my futaba's to switches,they are easier to hold down.

The forgot to take fuel to the field one day last summer.
I had everything else, including an electric starter that I don't use Twelve balanced props in three different sizes/ pitches, power panel, three glow starters, four glow plugs, and a prop balancer!?!
But no fuel.
A guy at the field gave me enough for three flights.
He wouldn't take my money for the fuel, and when he needed a prop I didn't want his money either.
It turned out to be a good day after all

I was driving home late last night. Ran out of window washer fluid. In the dark, i fumbled about in my trunk and found my bottle of fluid. was pouring it in and happened to notice that it was labeled "Cool Power".... DOH!!! Green washer fluid - round jug, green glow fuel - round jug - it was bound to happen at some point. Luckily my flight box was also in the trunk, i busted out the fuel pump and cranked all the glow fuel mixed with washer fluid out into the gutter - what a waste! I'm only buying BLUE washer fluid in SQUARE jugs from now on.

Worse,I've done it with Gordons Gin - expensive but it was clear.

Ouch on the glow fuel. That would have me hitting myself in the head. You having any problems with smears on ur window now. I would imagine some of the oil would be left behind.

Hmmm, that sounds like one of the better uses for Gordon Gin to me

Strider --- it sounds like you are using an instructor and it also sounds like you may have a couple flights in allready. Won't your instructor just take you up ( 3 mistakes ) and let you fly around getting used to the plane and passing the box if needed. Heck that was the only way a few years ago and it worked ok then. I even do it now and then with new students or even people that I just want to let them fly a little, on my plane or theirs. It's no big deal if you both stay on the ball. ENJOY !!! RED [8D]

Red Head, That's how I did it on my first flight... well first flight where someone else wasn't holding the box. Someone else holding the box and manipulating the right stick doesn't work to well. lol. The problem is, the switch is broken near the base. A few times the transmitter wasn't responding and I had to kinda push the trainer switch down to connect with the base part and wiggle it to get the transmitter to start responding again. (this was yesterday, not the day Rob took me up). I figure it's simply better to play it safe. It would suck to get up there, accidently joggle the switch and loose all control over the plane and watch it float away. The other option would be just to make sure it's on, then clip the switch all the way off to can't accidentatlly get joggled. I thought about that, but again, I figure it's better to just wait for the switch, as if did that and it somehow got stuck in the off position there would be nothing that could be done to get it back.
-John

Oh I forgot, about the mini switchs. Ya, victor said that was a option. I'd prefer just to wait for the switches to come in so I don't have to think about gettin a good fit from switches that aren't designed for the tx.