Space inside RocHobby Staggerwing

[Alpha]

RE: Space inside RocHobby Staggerwing

+1,000,000! I appreciate your honesty and integrity, they win out every time.

[Konrad]

RE: Space inside RocHobby Staggerwing

+1,000,000! I appreciate your honesty and integrity, they win out every time.

Thanks guys.
Without honor and integrity a man is not a man. My dad told me we all make mistake and that is fine, just own up to them, take responsibility and learn from them. 

I should not have posted what I said without letting a bit of time pass and done a proper post-mortem. In my defense I did say I hadn't done  proper post-mortem

I hope folks caught that gyros can cause as many problem as the solve. It is all in the setup! This is true of all aviation. An improperly set up plane will not fly right!

[SlowJeff]

RE: Space inside RocHobby Staggerwing

I recently smashed my Yak 12 into several pieces through mistakes I made with my NX3, specifically the Emergency / Panic Switch function. It took 3 mistakes at once (or actually, accumulated) to accomplish this feat.

1: I overlooked the paragraph in the manual about calibrating your stick direction. These manuals tend to be very compact; you absolutely must read every word. Duly noted.

2: I failed to pay close enough attention to what I was seeing during my bench testing. Duly noted.

3: When I did my in-flight test I didn't get "3 mistakes high" before testing.

So, at about 15 - 20 feet off the ground I put her into a dive and flipped the switch. The improperly calibrated elevator went hard down instead of hard up. At that height there was nothing left but to smash into the ground.

It took two days to glue the pieces together. Propellers are cheap. I am awaiting a replacement motor. The cowl looks like it ran in a demolition derby, but tape holds it together. A new one is on the way.

The Yak 12 will fly again, under the control of a much-chastened pilot. With a properly calibrated NX3.

As flight schools go it was pretty affordable.

[mu2freighter]

RE: Space inside RocHobby Staggerwing

+1,000,000! I appreciate your honesty and integrity, they win out every time.

Thanks guys.
Without honor and integrity a man is not a man. My dad told me we all make mistake and that is fine, just own up to them, take responsibility and learn from them. 

I should not have posted what I said without letting a bit of time pass and done a proper post-mortem. In my defense I did say I hadn't done  proper post-mortem

I hope folks caught that gyros can cause as many problem as the solve. It is all in the setup! This is true of all aviation. An improperly set up plane will not fly right!

You're demonstrating that transparency's beneficial to everyone concerned here. Like any other discipline, aviation is a dynamic and ongoing learning process. I wasn't particularly concerned from the get-go since you were clear you hadn't done a complete post-crash evaluation. No harm, no foul, right?

As far as mistakes go, everyone, including the most seasoned veteran pilots make mistakes all the time...it's how they react to and learn from these that distinguishes a professional from the less-than-competent.

Be of good cheer...with models, especially these days, the only penalty is some bent or broken gear. I knew a few people in full size aviation who paid with their lives when they didn't keep their heads.

I'm just waiting to see how Slow Jeff here makes out with flying that lovely Beech...I suspect it'll turn out great!