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Hit Your Field Box?
07-29-2007 | 01:40 PM
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From: raymond,
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RE: Hit Your Field Box?
What would happen if you were taxiing back in after a nine minute and thirty second flight with ten minutes of fuel on board??
Any one but me ever notice how the engine leans out as it runs out of fuel.
How fast can a model go in those two seconds in the pits??
You notice I am making two stupid assumptions here; first that everyone else will know your coming in and second that you will know no one will step in front of you.
There are certain phrases we use in the english language. Phrases like
Bad mojo
Bad carma
S**t happens
Oops my bad.
How many others can be added? they all mean someone did something stupid. Why invite it.
Any one but me ever notice how the engine leans out as it runs out of fuel.
How fast can a model go in those two seconds in the pits??
You notice I am making two stupid assumptions here; first that everyone else will know your coming in and second that you will know no one will step in front of you.
There are certain phrases we use in the english language. Phrases like
Bad mojo
Bad carma
S**t happens
Oops my bad.
How many others can be added? they all mean someone did something stupid. Why invite it.
07-29-2007 | 02:03 PM
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From: Lacona,
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RE: Hit Your Field Box?
1. It's called " Hit the Kill Switch." Use it... it works great.
2. Our club has a rule that spectators have to stay in the pit... and our pit is completely surrounded in by a metal chained fence.
3. We all taxi our planes to the edge of the fence where all our boxes are, and no-one is careless enough to bolt in front of our aircraft.
4. I don't taxi aiming it at people, and I usually walk along side... or behind my aircraft until I park it.
Luftwaffe Oberst
Radio Aero Modelers Club
AMA District II
Pulaski, NY
2. Our club has a rule that spectators have to stay in the pit... and our pit is completely surrounded in by a metal chained fence.
3. We all taxi our planes to the edge of the fence where all our boxes are, and no-one is careless enough to bolt in front of our aircraft.
4. I don't taxi aiming it at people, and I usually walk along side... or behind my aircraft until I park it.
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07-29-2007 | 02:04 PM
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RE: Hit Your Field Box?
ORIGINAL: Jim Thomerson
If you want to hit your field box, it is much easier with a control line airplane. Been there, done that, no T-shirt.
If you want to hit your field box, it is much easier with a control line airplane. Been there, done that, no T-shirt.
LOL [sm=lol.gif]
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07-29-2007 | 02:19 PM
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From: raymond,
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RE: Hit Your Field Box?
But Luftwaffe, Hitting the Kill switch as the plane is suddenly leaned out will not kill it, unless your talking about a gasser, but I'm talking about the average sport glow engine that the average modeler flies. And in that case Kill switch wont work, closing the throttle won't work it will simply lean out, the engine will race then finally die but only after the plane is moving 20 mph. Thats point one.
Number two goes something like this. We were talking about taxiing in to the pits which you say doesn't happen due to a fence. No one said it was careless to taxi to the designated shut down spot.
3, No one is careless enough to bolt out in front of the plane. BUT that assumes that they know where you are what you are doing and know where THEY are and they are doing. Don't over estimate people they really are dumb creatures. How many times have you heard about the car accident where the guy says 'He just came out of no where' Well no he didn't unless God or Scotty or some one beamed the car down there from literally no where then it was there all along, you just weren't looking at it. Same scenario works just fine for planes too. Don't forget that a model plane taxiing around in your neighborhood will attract attention but at the field it is the norm.
4. Walking along side or behind doesn't put you in a position to do anything if the plane runs away. Maybe Gomer Pyle turns on his Tx cause he saw you land, what are you going to do tackle your plane? If it runs away it will be out of reach before you can react. But again as you stated you don't taxi in the pits anyway. I Am only writing this because you have mentioned some of the very reasons people use to justify it and I wanted to point out why the reasons are thin at best in my opinion. The only safe thing to do is to simply NEVER taxi in the pits.
Number two goes something like this. We were talking about taxiing in to the pits which you say doesn't happen due to a fence. No one said it was careless to taxi to the designated shut down spot.
3, No one is careless enough to bolt out in front of the plane. BUT that assumes that they know where you are what you are doing and know where THEY are and they are doing. Don't over estimate people they really are dumb creatures. How many times have you heard about the car accident where the guy says 'He just came out of no where' Well no he didn't unless God or Scotty or some one beamed the car down there from literally no where then it was there all along, you just weren't looking at it. Same scenario works just fine for planes too. Don't forget that a model plane taxiing around in your neighborhood will attract attention but at the field it is the norm.
4. Walking along side or behind doesn't put you in a position to do anything if the plane runs away. Maybe Gomer Pyle turns on his Tx cause he saw you land, what are you going to do tackle your plane? If it runs away it will be out of reach before you can react. But again as you stated you don't taxi in the pits anyway. I Am only writing this because you have mentioned some of the very reasons people use to justify it and I wanted to point out why the reasons are thin at best in my opinion. The only safe thing to do is to simply NEVER taxi in the pits.
07-29-2007 | 02:32 PM
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RE: Hit Your Field Box?
ORIGINAL: superflea
But Luftwaffe, Hitting the Kill switch as the plane is suddenly leaned out will not kill it, unless your talking about a gasser, but I'm talking about the average sport glow engine that the average modeler flies. And in that case Kill switch wont work, closing the throttle won't work it will simply lean out, the engine will race then finally die but only after the plane is moving 20 mph. Thats point one.
Number two goes something like this. We were talking about taxiing in to the pits which you say doesn't happen due to a fence. No one said it was careless to taxi to the designated shut down spot.
3, No one is careless enough to bolt out in front of the plane. BUT that assumes that they know where you are what you are doing and know where THEY are and they are doing. Don't over estimate people they really are dumb creatures. How many times have you heard about the car accident where the guy says 'He just came out of no where' Well no he didn't unless God or Scotty or some one beamed the car down there from literally no where then it was there all along, you just weren't looking at it. Same scenario works just fine for planes too. Don't forget that a model plane taxiing around in your neighborhood will attract attention but at the field it is the norm.
4. Walking along side or behind doesn't put you in a position to do anything if the plane runs away. Maybe Gomer Pyle turns on his Tx cause he saw you land, what are you going to do tackle your plane? If it runs away it will be out of reach before you can react. But again as you stated you don't taxi in the pits anyway. I Am only writing this because you have mentioned some of the very reasons people use to justify it and I wanted to point out why the reasons are thin at best in my opinion. The only safe thing to do is to simply NEVER taxi in the pits.
But Luftwaffe, Hitting the Kill switch as the plane is suddenly leaned out will not kill it, unless your talking about a gasser, but I'm talking about the average sport glow engine that the average modeler flies. And in that case Kill switch wont work, closing the throttle won't work it will simply lean out, the engine will race then finally die but only after the plane is moving 20 mph. Thats point one.
Number two goes something like this. We were talking about taxiing in to the pits which you say doesn't happen due to a fence. No one said it was careless to taxi to the designated shut down spot.
3, No one is careless enough to bolt out in front of the plane. BUT that assumes that they know where you are what you are doing and know where THEY are and they are doing. Don't over estimate people they really are dumb creatures. How many times have you heard about the car accident where the guy says 'He just came out of no where' Well no he didn't unless God or Scotty or some one beamed the car down there from literally no where then it was there all along, you just weren't looking at it. Same scenario works just fine for planes too. Don't forget that a model plane taxiing around in your neighborhood will attract attention but at the field it is the norm.
4. Walking along side or behind doesn't put you in a position to do anything if the plane runs away. Maybe Gomer Pyle turns on his Tx cause he saw you land, what are you going to do tackle your plane? If it runs away it will be out of reach before you can react. But again as you stated you don't taxi in the pits anyway. I Am only writing this because you have mentioned some of the very reasons people use to justify it and I wanted to point out why the reasons are thin at best in my opinion. The only safe thing to do is to simply NEVER taxi in the pits.
I agree with you. Hmmm, but I do need you to know that all I have is Glow Engines, and when I hit that button on my radio... the engine quits every time.
I have my engine, Throttle Linkage and my Needle Valves right on. If the engine revs up or doesn't quit right away... I would look at replacing some gaskets or making a throttle adjustment etc.
When I hit my kill switch, the air gets choked off at the Carb. So it shouldn't lean out.
But other than that... I fully agree that you shouldn't taxi in any pit. If someone does that in our club and we will be all over that person with possible termination to his membership... especially if it happens twice.
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07-30-2007 | 07:26 AM
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RE: Hit Your Field Box?
The only correct answer as far as most of the posters I've seen in this thread, is not to taxi. Shut down at the flight line and walk or carry the plane back to the pits. That's the only real safe way to handle this situation no matter how much you try to justify or logically explain actions that started this whole thread.
It's easy to say that one has complete control of their airplane. Of course you do. Who would admit otherwise. But, the truth and the reality of this is that accidents do happen.
Consider an accident as a chain of events. Every link in the chain has to be there in order for that accident to have happened. But, if one link is broken, then the chain is no longer intact, is broken, and the accident is prevented. Again... shut down at the flight line and walk or carry the plane to the pits. That's the broken link in the chain of events that causes (often painful) accidents.
It's easy to say that one has complete control of their airplane. Of course you do. Who would admit otherwise. But, the truth and the reality of this is that accidents do happen.
Consider an accident as a chain of events. Every link in the chain has to be there in order for that accident to have happened. But, if one link is broken, then the chain is no longer intact, is broken, and the accident is prevented. Again... shut down at the flight line and walk or carry the plane to the pits. That's the broken link in the chain of events that causes (often painful) accidents.
