Training, Day 2

Got home from Training Day 1; plugged the plane and the transmitter into the charger, and let them charge overnight (8-10 hours). Then, while the lights were still shining, I unplugged their batteries.

I got the to field this past Sunday, banded her up, fueled her up, switched her on... nothing. No radio response at all. This makes Drew a sad panda... so I pulled the battery out and tried reconnecting.. checked the connection at the receiver... nothing. So, I threw the battery on a field charger.. and the beep beep beep 5 minutes later meant we were ready for flight.

2 Flights : no problems. 3rd flight was a diff story. Al took off, pointer her at the sky, 3/4 throttle, nice upward gradual left turn... and thats how she stayed. Completely lost interest in what we were doing with the transmitter... just kept climbing, and climbing.. and slightly turning... and 12 minutes of shock and horror later, the little black spec that was the purple plane... disappeared behind a tree line, some 3+ miles away.

My plane... is gone.

"Put your name/number in it?" -- "Nope"
"Set your fail-safes, in case the Tx/Rx stop talking to each other?" -- "Nope"
"GPS/Transmitter in it in case you loose it?" -- "Nope"

Al was very kind and drove me around for an hour or more looking for it. No luck. 2 other people at the field went out looking for it.. no luck.

So, I'll put an ad in Craiglist.. in the lost and found... and hope/pray that someone finds it and checks CList, or calls around to the RC clubs in the area.

... speaking of sad panda...