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Crashed? Discussion and Photos > This time it was a mechanical failiure!

Bird_E
Senior Heliman
Location: Erie, CO

Well, I just had my first crash due to mechanical failure. I was in the back yard hovering my raptor up about 6 feet and all of a sudden I lose total control of the left/right cyclic...... WACK! Typical head damage. My futaba 9001 that controls the Left/Right cyclic developed a dead spot in the center of travel and would just stick there and not move.

It makes me feel better that it wasn't pilot error, THIS TIME

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Is this a common problem?
Bob

03-26-2003 Over year old.

Doug
Elite Veteran
Location: Naples Florida....

Still "pilot error" you should have seen it comming

First member of Member of Bearings Anonymous

03-26-2003 Over year old.

rob_jones
Key Veteran
Location: Oglethorpe, GA

Hate to break it to ya, but...

Any crash or mishap caused by a preventable maintenance issue is still pilot error (assuming the pilot is the one doing the maintenance - as is usually the case with RC stuff).

I had the tail rotor belt snap on my Shuttle causing it to pile in. I knew the belt had a bad spot, but thought it would be okay. I thought wrong. So that one went in the Pilot Error column.

The best way to prevent "mechanical failures" causing a crash? Three words: Preflight, Preflight and Preflight. A thorough preflight inspection would have most likely caught a dead or dying servo.

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Team MRC Hirobo
I reject your reality and substitute my own.

03-26-2003 Over year old.

Bird_E
Senior Heliman
Location: Erie, CO

Pre-Flight

ALL servos were working perfectly on the Pre Flight!

Anyway, my point is/was.... the crash was caused by a mechanical failure and not "Dumb Thumbs"!

03-27-2003 Over year old.

rob_jones
Key Veteran
Location: Oglethorpe, GA

I stand corrected

I guess that sometimes it really is just a mechanical failure