Lesson Learned

Sorry to hear about your crash Yabby… But as quick as you built you’ll have it or another one in the air in no time at all!!

Yes, the sun has claimed many… I second getback’s suggestion of using something like a baseball cap to start with, Plus sun glasses you mentioned…. Mine is mostly RC but when the plane goes into the sun the transmitter goes up to shadow my eyes and just hold last setting until I see it again…. Maybe your free hand could do similar for CL?…. I realize things happen faster closer to the ground but just a thought…

Goodaye Eric Thaks for that. Ive tried a hat but it sort of gets in the way when my heads going back fowards up and down following the arc of the plane and things. No, it was just a dumb mistake I have learnt from. Ive had it in my eyes before but never like I did this time and I had shades on. I was watching really hard as I wanted to level off from a loop inverted and with a wingover or normal loop if I cop a bit of sun I can look away for a moment and its all ok, but not going inverted. my mistake. Lessone learned to work out position for manauveres better.

Yes, it was a hot day, ended up about 42 C - 108 F and when I was out in the morning it was all ready about 36 C 97 F in the shade. Yes, you can smell the gums at times but Im probably used to the smell, but what is most amazing when it gets really hot, dry, no humidity and no breeze is there is a haze of the gum/eucalyptus fumes around the trees that you can see. It shimmers. On days like that if you are near them you can really smell it. Also what makes bush fires so dangerous over here in Oz. The eucalyptus fumes are extremely flamable and you get fires where its burning super fast across the tree tops and you can get fireballs from embers landing in trees and the fumes burst into flames. Its very dangerous when it happens, but not enough of them around where I am. Its all been cleared for crops.

Anyway, main thing is if you gonna crash, learn something from it. And I have very definately learnt I need to understand where the wind and the Sun are. Lol.

GaryB

rdw777 wrote:Sorry to hear about your crash Yabby… But as quick as you built you’ll have it or another one in the air in no time at all!!

Yes, the sun has claimed many… I second getback’s suggestion of using something like a baseball cap to start with, Plus sun glasses you mentioned…. Mine is mostly RC but when the plane goes into the sun the transmitter goes up to shadow my eyes and just hold last setting until I see it again…. Maybe your free hand could do similar for CL?…. I realize things happen faster closer to the ground but just a thought…

Thanks RDW777 The loss of a jigger is not so bad. I worry much more about the engines! and the TD was fine and I ran it back at home no problems. So thats a good crash. TD ok, lesson learned. Yes, I need to learn to be ready to shield my eyes for that moment from the sun, like you do with your Tx or look away for a moment. It probably does happen quicker in CL, but you still have to learn to manage it, as if the sun and the cross wind line up you will have it happen. I have found with half A, it really matters to have the wind correct when doing manauveres. With my 15 Enya and OS 15 it doesnt matter so much. The other thing is I really dont like hats on my head when im flying and a hat wouldnt have helped as I looked direct into the sun as thats where the plane was.

Nope, Yabby just manages to complete another one of the 101 dumb ways to crash. Always been a crasher even when I raced bikes!, no shame, no brains my dad used to tell me. He was allowed to say that as he had to fix them for me after I crashed them.

GaryB
'Yabby'