Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: coombz on March 20, 2012, 02:53:14 AM
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:rofl
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That's just sad. Think of all the hard work that went into making that model.
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I never figure out how someone can spend hundreds of hours building a model and then forget to spend enough time to set up a proper landing area.
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The guy in the white shirt just barely got out of the way. Plane looks like a total loss too. What a way to ruin your day.
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Lucky no prop hit. The one guy was trying to grab the other. That is why he failed to get out of the way in time. Very amateur RC pilots or a failure in controls.
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Lucky no prop hit. The one guy was trying to grab the other. That is why he failed to get out of the way in time. Very amateur RC pilots or a failure in controls.
Agreed. Kind of looks like one of the engines was out, which makes for a difficult landing. I'm almost sure that the right engine is out. Most R/C pilots would kill the remaining engine and land dead stick instead.
Aside from that, landing with the plane coming straight at you like that is just stupid.
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So that kind of landing is a "fail"? That would actually be considered fairly good compared to most of my landings in game.
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A friend of mine once spent over two grand on an RC Helicopter. The first time he flew it a gust of wind threw it into a tree and destroyed it!
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A friend of mine once spent over two grand on an RC Helicopter. The first time he flew it a gust of wind threw it into a tree and destroyed it!
I've seen large scale R/C jets that cost well over $20k to build plow nose first into the dirt. First rule of flying R/C airplanes is, you will crash one eventually. I've been flying R/C since about 1986 or so, off the top of my head I can think of 5 planes that I've crashed and destroyed over the years. Nothing so costly as the B25 in the original post thank goodness.
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from looking at ut in slowmo, i see that the right propellor is two bladed and stopped
i think
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I don't understand why the pilot set up an approach that put the plane's landing point at exactly where he was standing when he had an entire field to land safely.
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I've seen large scale R/C jets that cost well over $20k to build plow nose first into the dirt.
Never understood why those guys don't buy a real plane with that kind of money.
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Never understood why those guys don't buy a real plane with that kind of money.
Better for health to crash an RC instead of a real plane.
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Better for health to crash an RC instead of a real plane.
Depends on where it crashes. :D
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Depends on where it crashes. :D
This is true. That B25 in the clip weighs in at 10 to 12 pounds minimum. That's a lot of force hitting you. I saw a Quickie 500 pylon racer go through the side of a passenger van at an event in the early 90s.
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The guy in the white shirt just barely got out of the way. Plane looks like a total loss too. What a way to ruin your day.
looks like to me he was definately hit by the right wing in either the leg or arm, i cant tell which... the angle at which the plane is not enough for the wing to have hit the ground, plus it began to climb again and didnt start settling back down until the wing was already being ripped off.
As for Real vs RC... RC is going to be way cheaper. Sure you could get a 20k plane, but if you do, your going to be getting something really high timed or really old. Your going to be paying insurance, maintainence, gas, hangar, landing fees, etc. With an RC your just paying to build it and paying for some gas and parts when need be. I wonder how many people actually have insurance on their models and how much a month it costs.
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I wonder how many people actually have insurance on their models and how much a month it costs.
I don't know of any insurance that covers the loss of the model. Only R/C insurance I have seen is liability in case your plane does damage to something.
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Never understood why those guys don't buy a real plane with that kind of money.
Well you might be assuming they don't already have a real plane? If they have that kind of money to drop on an RC, I'd say they already have the real deal. In the case where they don't have a real plane, then :headscratch:. Maybe because real planes can cost thousands of dollars / year just to sit in a hangar? dunno
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I don't know of any insurance that covers the loss of the model. Only R/C insurance I have seen is liability in case your plane does damage to something.
I was curious about this too, and before i posted, i serached and one result said that the AMA provided it for "high valued" aircraft... went to the site, but couldnt even find anything on insurance at all... so...
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I don't understand why the pilot set up an approach that put the plane's landing point at exactly where he was standing when he had an entire field to land safely.
He probably didn't.
You need to be fairly close to the landing area so you can aim the airplane to a point in front of you. If you're too far away depth perception becomes an issue. Any R/C field I was ever at had the pilots standing right out at the edge of the runway area.
He was probably fine until he overrotated the flare then asymmetric thrust yawed the airplane to the right (right engine isn't running) -- which happened to be right at him and his spotter.
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He probably didn't.
You need to be fairly close to the landing area so you can aim the airplane to a point in front of you. If you're too far away depth perception becomes an issue. Any R/C field I was ever at had the pilots standing right out at the edge of the runway area.
He was probably fine until he overrotated the flare then asymmetric thrust yawed the airplane to the right (right engine isn't running) -- which happened to be right at him and his spotter.
If you have ever flown a twin engine R/C plane you'll know how extremely difficult they are to control on one engine. I figure, they had an engine go out. Pilot chopped throttle to bring it in for a landing. When the approach went badly and the panic started, he probably gave it full throttle to go around. That's a normal response to a missed approach with an R/C plane. But with an engine out, it's a really bad idea. That instant full throttle created that instant yaw to the right and the following crash. looks like the wingtip clipped the second guys foot.