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<DIV>You're one of the luckier ones then. What was the plane's attitude at the time of lockout?</DIV>
<DIV>Point to ponder: Do you think you'd have noticed that "I ain't got it" revelation sooner with the surfaces set to hold or set to a spin? The engine throttle-back could be misconstrued as a flameout, so I don't think that's too reliable an indicator of lockout by itself.</DIV>
<DIV>Just curious. I would think it depends what you were doing with the controls at the time of lockout.</DIV>
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<DIV>Rick</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>From:</B></I> <A href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Date:</B></I> Tuesday, May 17, 2005 12:28:33 PM</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Subject:</B></I> Re: Fail-safe settings for control surfaces</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Rick,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> My Prophecy went into failsafe (idle and hold for all other channels) and came out after about a second ( it seemed like an hour ). I suspect interference but was not able to find any one month later using the district 6 scanner.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:08 AM</DIV>
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<DIV>It would be interesting to see statistics on how often a plane comes out of failsafe and the pilot regains control before meeting with Mother Earth. It's never happened for me, but admittedly, I don't use the feature often. Had two sport airplanes go into lockout when I did use it, and I watched both spin in.</DIV>
<DIV>I agree a spin recovery isn't the easiest thing to execute down low when you're in a panic, but I'd venture to say it would buy you more time than being in a vertical dive while in lockout would--IF the receiver recovers signal in time. I think it just comes down to dumb luck really, in what attitude/altitude the plane is in when the lockout occurs. The question is what are the odds that your plane would only go into lockout in level flight vs. the middle of a snap, roll, inverted dive, etc. Assuming worst case scenario, i.e., no signal recovery, the spin at least puts the plane back on the field so you can find it, and hopefully the spin would serve to somewhat lessen the descent speed at impact. Maybe a flat spin would be better in that regard.</DIV>
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<DIV>My luck with such things dictates that it doesn't really matter what I plan for--the plane's going in, and hard.</DIV>
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