Today was supposed to be a great day with my son as we finally were able to put the Cub on floats (the float kit that was supposed to fit did not have the right size propeller to fit the shaft). After I engaged the A/P, making sure it had a good GPS lock, we practiced taxiing it around, with my son getting some practice as well. Finally I hit the throttle and she took off in about 10 yards, very impressive. I did a climbing left turn and was establishing my pattern when the plane simply stopped responding to my control inputs. At first I was nervous but then I remembered that I was in Mode 0 (beginner mode) and that the virtual fence should kick in. It didn't. The plane kept climbing and flew about a quarter mile until it turned around. I was very nervous at this point and relieved when I saw it headed back towards us. It performed a check turn away, descended below the tree line, never to be seen again after searching for it for a few hours. Fortunately there is a large uninhabited area with tall trees that hopefully caught the plane. I have no idea what happened. It clearly had GPS as it was maintaining level flight. I read through the instruction booklet and it confirmed that even if it lost transmitter signals, it should have returned to where I initialized the home point.
Any ideas what happened? Any chance Horizon Hobby will refund/replace my plane?
Any ideas what happened? Any chance Horizon Hobby will refund/replace my plane?
Comment