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Crashed? Discussion and Photos > List Your Best- Dumb Thumb/ or preventable Crash!
 
 
Kam Wyatt
Senior Heliman
Location: cottondale, Fl.

Helimitch has a great topic starter and I thought it would be great to list odd things that have caused crashes that were preventable, i,e.

I have hit throttle hold while inverted and dinged a machine!

I have had the antenna wire get caught in the swash plate

I have had the helicopter tip over while trying to adjust the Radio.

Yep! Just a pure idiot! ( Yes , I was known as the crashmaster for a long time!)

Started flying someone elses helicopter while flying with a friend with
a simular type heli. (Both of us in the air at the same time)

Please list your most memorable mishaps so we can all learn.
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Indrid
Key Veteran
Location: Hamburg, NY

the standard "start the heli at full throttle" accident, which melted my clutch and cost me a set of blades, a nice bout with wind that threw my heli into a tree because of my lack of judgement.... i dont fly enough (yet) to get the REAL good crashes.


wheres that piece of wood to knock on when you need it?
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Jesse Lineberger
Senior Heliman
Location: Round Rock Texas

Not dumb thumbs just dumb as hell

Doing stationary piros in the front yard with no canopy on, battery pack flys out and about a min 30 sec later the heli dirfts into the neighbors truck!!!!!

J
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
NZ_Neil
Veteran
Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Was setting up a new gyro on a three blade gasser (800mm blades) realised the servo was back to front so reversed the channel on xmitter.

Unfortunatley I reversed the throttle channel, this was not so much of a problem except I was using a GV1 and ended up in a situation where throttle went to full noise and I could not shut it down as soon as the GV1 kicked in.

The chicken dance on the sealed drive had my wife laughing for weeks - and the cost ..... just don;t go there.
11-27-2002 Over year old.
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rcheliflyer
Key Veteran
Location: calif., usa

When I first learned to hover, during practice I needed to trim the rudder so I went into a 20 foot hover then reached over to the rudder
trim, then back to the collective real quick like, hit the stick wrong and
pulled it full down , I still had the training gear on too
Another time when I was just learning forward flight I was flying a pattern
and I tried to make a turn on my weak side, forgot to add some elevator
with the left cyclic froze and watched the heli left bank into the ground.
The worst part was I just finished rebuilding it and was showing my
fresh new heli to some friends who have never seen one before.
In both of these dumb thumb incidents the common denominators were
an audience and being a bit over confident trying to show off my RC helicopter
I guess I was a bit preoccupied and the extra mental distraction was
above my threshold at the time.
I still remember these *mishaps vividly, they were early in my heli learning days, besides the many other things that happend.
This type of problem has lessend with burning fuel, experience and a bit of discipline on my part
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Kobinger
Senior Heliman
Location: Oregon, USA

Being a beginer

My bout with "Dumbass~ism" flying the my helipoper to far away and lost track of the where the boom was... and that caused a gravity suckdown. but in actuality the damage was very minimal...

Richard
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
JasonM
Senior Heliman
Location: usa

REAL IDIOT

We worked on a machine Concept 60 Graphite all night till 2:00am just to forget to charge machine. We watched it fly for 2 good minutes with no control!!!!
How many times have you forgoten to flip the switch to stunt or idle up then take off fliping it inverted BEENTHERE!!!
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Jesse Lineberger
Senior Heliman
Location: Round Rock Texas

Mechanical Gyros

I use to fly with this guy named Kyron, Kam knows him, anyway, he was flying I'd guess it was a Nexus of mine at the time and I thought this thing flew great. Well, I had flown it probably about 3 tanks before him and he got out about 100yrds away and everytime he made an input it would pirouet. I though what the hell! Well what was happening was the batts were so dead that the gyro would not respond when making other imputs. Well to make this already long story shorter it did infact make it on the ground safely, that day. CopterDoctor would end the life of this machine for me, same batteries different day. I'm going to solar power.

J
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
spyder354
Senior Heliman
Location: Las Vegas, NV

I almost had a stupid mishap. Danny S. had helped me set up my idle up, and he was spotting me through my first loops and rolls. I did a great auto at the end and i was so excited that i kept the stick full up after it stopped sliding. I looked over to Danny and said that was my best auto yet, and without thinking, flipped the hold switch back with it still in idle up and the stick full up. I hear the BUUURRR and see Danny's eyes get all wide and by the time i looked over it was 10-15 feet in the air climbing fast. My first instinct was to flip the switch back to where it was when everything was ok, but the stick was full up, so it climbed another couple feet and began dropping again with the blades going very slow. I then hit the hold switch back and let it spin back up coming really close to the ground, then climbed a little and switched it to normal mode and landed it safely. I was shaking pretty badly, but it was my most exciting flight so far. All Danny could say was "good thinking, i thought you were gonna crash it for sure".
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Secret Squirrel
Key Veteran
Location: New Zealander living in Melbourne, Australia

We've all been there...

1/ I started my gasser at full throttle one day... The torque of that thing damn near tore my wrist off.

2/ Didn't tie my battery checker down properly, and it flew up into the rotor head of my Voyager and popped the links off. I had enough time to cut the engine before it hit...

3/ Changed the flybar on my little Ergo but forgot to do up one of the grub screws... Luckily I got it down in one piece, but that was an act of God.

4/ On my first night fly I forgot to fill the fuel tank which turned into my first night auto...

5/ My first couple of attempts at autos were boom busting, blade smashing messes.

Si

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Simon Lockington
11-27-2002 Over year old.
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Safe_Cracker
Key Veteran
Location: Chicago, IL

I'll eat a piece of that IDIOT cake with you guys!

About 3years ago instead of using a flybar lock when setting my base pitch settings, I used a couple of small segments of fuel line jammed under it.Well, yes you can guess I forgot to remove them and on top of it the Mystar 60 only had JR 517's on it to begin with.It was kind of cool but very sluggish in turn, got to the tree outline and pulled left cyclic just for it to go straight into the trees, lOl.couple of months later I got a skid stuck on a clump of grass about 2 days after I pulled the training gear off . Ok one more....I was at work in our 150,000 sq/ft warehouse where I decided I was gonna learn nose in!I was determined to do it so I started the bird off NOSE IN, lOl...As soon as it lifted off (always tried to maintain a slight nose heavy bird)It reached about 3 1/2 ft when I freaked out and forgot EVERYTHING!The damn thing chased me down and the only thing that saved my @ss was a palette of apple juice in plastic jugs.Well I quickly grabbed the bird and my flight gear shoved it back in the car and went back home and said someone must have drove into the palette with a fork lift...Mannnn, good thing I practice at work before anyone gets there...
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
vfastr6
Veteran
Location: Cape Town, RSA

Mine - flew behind a tree. The tree was there first. Ended up planting the heli inverted into the tree while trying to determine the attitude of the heli.....
11-27-2002 Over year old.
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Dave_D
Key Veteran
Location: Philippines

Best Dumb Thumb

Rolled the heli at around 10 ft altitude, when it was inverted I pulled the elevator by mistake... BAM! Around $300 damage



Best Preventable Crash

Maiden flight with new YS80, forgot to tighten blade grips and blade hit the tailboom during a forward flip at around 150 feet. KABLAM!!! $550 worth of damage.

But the last one was around 12 months ago, no crashes since
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Inspector Fuzz
Veteran
Location: Austin, TX. Where fat chicks succeed.

Fill the tank!!!

Howdy!!
I have taken off with an empty gas tank and subsequently crashed. Not once, but TWICE.. Duh.!!
JEFF
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Ken B
Elite Veteran
Location: Phoenix, AZ

It takes all kinds

Yes, I crashed my Glow Lighter! What's it to ya?!?

There I was, flying my Sceadu around engine was running remarkably well. During a high altitude pass a white thing drops out of the machine. In panic mode I landed the Heli ASAP. Going over to inspect what had fallen off may machine I discovered the glow lighter smashed into the concrete and pancaked.

Yes, this could have been prevented but it wasn't, I destroyed my glow lighter

Ken B
11-27-2002 Over year old.
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Safe_Cracker
Key Veteran
Location: Chicago, IL

Volkul....lOl....

You can have the whole cake dude!!!That was a good one...Hahahahahhahaha......
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
Axeman
Senior Heliman
Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Flying with the flybar lock on causes some weird swashplate interactions!
Having the exhaust deflector fly off while hovering inverted at 3ft gets the heart racing.
Starting the heli with the receiver OFF!

Experience is cruel....
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
heliraptor
Key Veteran
Location: Colchester, Essex, UK

Brain fade

Well I've had a few, inverted with the Sceadu 50 at about 10 feet, for some unknown reason, and it sure was Dumb thumbs I gave it full up on the collective, and real hard too. Before I knew it there was silence and a heap of smoking junk !! I had to smile though, what a Prat.

An earlier one and I'm sure others have done this, Raptor 30, looking forward to flying, can't wait to get it in the air, wound the head up, took off, thats weird all the controls are reversed apart form the collective, now that takes coordination, it landed heavily right side up and the only damage was a bent spindle.

The cause........ I forgot to change model memory and took off in the simulator screen, what a muppett !!!!

Lee
11-27-2002 Over year old.
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enraptored
Heliman
Location: Scotland

Fair old selection that I've decided to forget but

taking off with the wrong model memory - reversed collective means you land with the blades going realllllll slow, but your heartbeat makes up for it

taking off in front of my favourite heli-hating plankers, big stall turn over the middle of the runway --- then forgetting to pull out. Difficult to talk that one away

practicing backwards flying over the sea 2 1/2 mistakes high - and then making 3. All that was left was a rotor blade poking above the sea 20 yards out

Think thats enough for now
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
jimmyhua
Veteran
Location: Guam

You can't top this one.

This happened at our field the other day. Not me, but....

There were 4 guys at the field, 1 was flying and the other three were chit chatting. Anyways we were talking about the local politics and problems about the local government, and the pilot was an ear shot away and heard everything.

While he was flying around doing various tricks, I made a rather controversial statement. So, he turns around and stops looking at his bird, turns around and gives his 2 cents worth of opinion. Only, he talked for a good long while.

We all looked at him, and his flying machine in the background in astonishment!

You can guess what happens next. A good loud WHACKING noise soon ensued. We all forgot what we were talking about, and was a bit surprised at what he had done!!!

Oh it flew up, piroetted, and then went for a nosedive! I had the best seat in the house

Jimmy
11-27-2002 Over year old.
 
 
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