Um...


I pulled a Dumb***** move and crunched my UCD on the ground. Flew about 1/3 of a gallon...had fun all morning. The field was completely empty, all mine. After the last flight, I decided to taxi into the pits...a no-no, especially if there were any others there. .....(anyone see where this is going?)


As the plane was stopped, at idle, I trimmed the throttle all the way down to kill the engine. Instantly, the plane went full-throttle into a table and broke in half. I looked down at my TX and realized that I had inadvertently hit the power switch and turned it off when I 'killed' the engine. The servos were all twitching and the plane is repairable, but I don't think I want to invest the time right now. I will fix it in the Fall. (I have more ARF's and engines than time right now).


Stupid...stupid ....STOOOOPID!!

Lesson learned...NEVER taxi into the pits even when the field is empty. I will be programming a throttle-kill into the radio on the next one for sure. Thank God nobody else was there....coulda been a mean ankle-biter.

Anyone wanna buy a UCD .46 with a broken fuselage??

Ouch! Sorry to hear about that.

Guess you may be getting more time on that Kadet Senior after all. :P

How much are you selling it for? PM me.
Karter

hey G-k-owner

...it would cost more to ship it than it's worth. I'm putting the engine and electronics in an edge 540 or a H-9 Showtime...well, not THAT engine...but I will keep it. It's a Saito .82...gonna put it in a Mayhem or something.

That ARF is only like $129 new and shipping will cost nearly half that...add your time to repair, some rolls of monokote, glue..balsa stock and you could buy a new one.

Yeah, true. I just noticed you are in california. I assumed you were on my side of the Mississippi. I'll probably get a .60 anyway. Does anyone know if the U-Can-Do is availiable in a kit?
Karter

No it's not and it's too bad, I wouldn't mind building one.

Personally, I did not like the way it flew all that much. It has like a 3" wing (thickness) and it's a floater for sure. Many people love it because it's light and the control surfaces are huge....I am not yet 3d-ing so I got it to learn TD landings with. It was easier than I thought. I liked it and flew it fine, but I will not get another one.

The plane is very draggy and light. I tend to be hard on my planes because of the amount of traveling I do. I do a lot more damage on the ground than flying...obviously. This plane is a bit fragile for my taste, but I know 2 guys who have had 3 or 4 of them each...they fly the cr@p out of em.

Mine had some serious coupling issues, and I don't know if I did something wrong or if I needed to program that out, but it was good practice on the sticks to do it manually. Knife edges were hard work and I never hovered it more than a second or 2, I'm simply not that good.

Snap rolls were a bit um...spastic and I never got a clean one. I would recommend DOUBLING the rudder throw from where I had it. You would need to get some longer servo arms, but the rudder on this plane is huge and I never used it to it's potential because it needed longer arms.

I think it committed suicide because I was such a boring owner.

I taxiied into the pits once when absolutely no one was there besides me. The mains got stuck in a 1 1/2 inch wide gap between two slabs of cement and the airplane nosed over into the truck and broke the prop. DUH! After that, I kill the engine a foot before the limit line and wheel the plane in even if no one is there.

I always program in throttle cut. Same at our field, not allowed to taxi into the pits. However, we do it when there is only a couple of members at the field and no officers. I will taxi the plane up to the starting stand and then flip down the switch on my futaba 9C and the engine is killed.

Dave...