YSRRider
Key Veteran
Location: Ingleside/Fox Lake, IL
| Your not the first person to do something stupid like that, ever try itching your nose or your ear while flying?  its easier to itch yourself while keeping both hands on the Tx and bringing both hands and TX up to your face, but sometimes that dont work either, at that height of the hands, its hard to move fingers whats worse is when someone else runs up behind you and slugs you in the back SORRY, MOSQUITO WAS ON YOUR BACK! or trying to fly with one hand so you can scratch! one of my buddies got a new raptor after seeing me fly, he gave up on helis a few years before i even got into it, he was still in the hovering stage and got his chopper a little too high for him so i had to take over, well he wouldnt get his hands off the Tx fast enough... the thing spun around "nose in" flying at us", I managed to hit the aileron to get it out of our face, by the time i got both hands on the Tx it was about 4 feet off the ground, falling on its left side, I dont know how i saved it! that was another pair of underwear i had to throw away
there is also an important lesson here to be learned... use a buddy cord! |
I was working on a little nose-in Monday for the first time down low and I got dumb thumbs long enough to have to duck and turn around in time to climb out and away from the pits.
). As Lou Gosset Jr said in 'An Officer and A Gentleman'; "Use your PERIPHERAL vision!"
