rbort
Elite Veteran
Location: Franklin, MA - U.S.A.
My Posts This: Topic Forum | What can I sayI'm not careless when you watch me you'd say I'm pretty careful with my machines not reckless but it still happens when I have so many flights logged. I was calculating and that's an average of 117 flights per crash or so. Some 3D pilots I see at funfly's crash at every funfly I see them!
Believe it or not most of them are not "my fault" with "my fault" being pilot error. I would say less than 6 are pilot error, the rest are some sort of failure either mechanical or servo related and I have 2 midairs and 1 crash in the garage included.
I did list all the crashes one time here for the 1005, I'm sure its still in an old post somewhere. For the Spectra, which I'm sure you're curious about, here's what I remember:
1. popped link
2. elevator servo gone bad
3. tail rotor servo failure
4. doors fell on it in the garage
5. angry plank pilot took it out with a midair
6. bad spot autorotation landing boom strike (this one pilot error)
7. blew head during backwards inverted auto before I mastered it, (pilot error as well).
The 1005 boasts 19 crashes, the latest one the pin in the delrin coupler sheared free as I went for one more autorotation before refueling. Powered up idle up 2 and when I punched full collective it let go spun like a top. I throttle held it and brought it down to the ground spinning on the runway but unfortunately the grass was dry and sticky and it flipped and boom struck on landing. In this case this one is not pilot error in my books but a missed save.
A couple of pilot errors I remember for the 1005 are:
1. Blew the head in an inverted auto years ago.
2. got disoriented in the evening low and far and planted it tail first.
3. high speed low flight auto pulled back and hit the tail in the ground and chopped it off though I managed to auto it down without further damage -- that was a feeling too good and getting too cocky day 
I can't think of anything else at the moment but I may have missed something.
In any case, 3060+ flights later I'm still smiling cheek to cheek for an awesome time that I've spent flying those gassers! And not only that, I would say there has been at least half as much crash saves over the last 12 years. I've gotten away with it several times and people a town over heard me yell with joy  At IRCHA I lost the tail rotor gears (stripped) in the 1005 but was fortunately high enough to regain control and land it way out about 500 feet away in the tall grass. At hour later after I had located some gears (thanks to Jeff from Minair gave me some free) it was flying again!
-=>Raja.
1005 Gasser, G26 3DMax++, 2205+ flights
Spectra-g, G26 3DMax, 870+ flights |
