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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>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Paul</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=knowhow3@bellsouth.net href="mailto:knowhow3@bellsouth.net">Rick
Kent</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=discussion@nsrca.org
href="mailto:discussion@nsrca.org">discussion@nsrca.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 17, 2005 9:08 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Fail-safe settings for
control surfaces</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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<DIV>Rick</DIV>
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