Enlightening Experience

[Rcmaster199 at aol.com]

 There is a Murphy's Law corollary that sez there has never been a thread 
locker good enough to keep the nut always tight. Which nut you might ask? Why, 
the nut in front of the controls, what else.

Matt
Don, for whatever comfort there is....for a LONG time when I was running the 
120 AC's and SC's, I hooked up the butterfly to rotate THE WRONG WAY.....

TWO different times....
There must be a rule about "not learning from mistakes" somewhere.  Probably 
secret.

Bob Pastorello
rcaerobob at cox.net
http://www.rcaerobats.net/


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Don Ramsey 
To: discussion at nsrca.org 
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 4:26 PM
Subject: Enlightening Experience


Some things you hate to admit especially when you are the dumbest link in the 
chain.  Hope this might help someone.

Thursday I changed transmitters on my plane.  Also, on that day I changed to 
a new type of fuel.  During practice, the plane seemed to be a little low on 
power but not too bad.  I only did 2 flights.

Friday we left for the contest in Lubbock.  Wind that day was quite strong 
and I only got one flight on the plane because of a problem.  Power was down but 
it was a little hot, the altitude was 3500 feet where I normally fly at sea 
level and the strong wind really didn't let me see the power profile.

Saturday is gorgeous, cool with only light winds.  On the first round I 
realized my power was far off what I needed.  The verticals almost stopped at the 
top and I was struggling.  Before the second round I added half Magnum 1.5 to 
the new fuel I was trying. Still no power and struggling thought the tops even 
with smaller maneuvers.  Third round, change prop without any help.  Fourth 
round change props again and add some Mag 2 to the fuel mix.  Some help but not 
enough. Sunday, I'm discouraged and still having power problems.  Fly poorly.

Today I'm looking over my plane and thinking about the contest.  For my 
backup transmitter I have all the setting recorded that are different from the 
other trx.  There is nothing about the throttle there so it must be the same.  I 
got the trx and opened the throttle while looking at the engine.  You guessed 
it, it's only open about 3 quarters. 

I'm still trying to learn the obvious.  If you've got a problem, first check 
the obvious.

Don
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