Freewing F9F Panther EDF Destruction. My Fault?

[bigbristv]

Hello everyone, first post and unfortunately it's not good. I am learning how to fly the hard way and am up to my first 64mm EDF.

Long story short, I bought the title jet and immediately crashed it. Thinking whatever I bought it again, added a gyro and it did the same thing.

How could it be me? 🤔

I have videorelogical evidence if needed.

[bigbristv]

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxAMiCbEu0b-KBxKSz_kFWkCTOm0eI51ZZ?si=-JADLCFTzJyNI8OG

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxJKaaqSdRKI3WdMf6uX4rQrQhWpGrfrB0?si=gT91bK_TfFrFYOwP

[kallend]

Looks to me like ailerons set up backwards, with additional help from the gyro on the second crash.

You need to get someone who knows what they're doing to look over your planes BEFORE you try to fly them.

[Reptielenfreak]

I dont know your process. But always start with basic check, are al the control services responding the right way.. ailerons, elevator etc etc. Than always your battery per cel V.
this looks to me like something was set up the wrong way just as kallend suggested. A gyro by itself probably wouldnt of saved your jet if a control service is steering the wrong way.

[bigbristv]

I did a pre-flight check of the control surfaces as I always do before a flight. I checked that the gyro was functioning in the two available modes after installing it, but others have pointed out that the controls for the gyro may have been reversed which I'm beginning to think was the case.

[rifleman_btx]

First check the cg, first flight looked like the jet dropped its tail and stalled immediately. The second still had that look to me, on top of the flight stabilizer being reversed. Also remember that whatever an aileron is pushed up will be the direction the plane will roll. So check that, and then when checking the flight stabilizer, if you lift the right wing up, that aileron needs to go up to push the wing back down during flight.