With great remorse, I've to announce that I've committed the biggest rc screwup of my life this morning. I took off with the elevator incorrectly setup. The elevator was about 75% up at neutral... . Needless to say the plane took of in a 4-5ft runup and just wanted to hover, loop and stall, and finally crashed. It was in-air for about 2 minutes during which I was firefighting to keep it level and blaming it on the strong wind this morning. No one was hurt. I was lucky enough to get to the crash site immediately and spot the plane and even lucky to have found that everything seemed intact except for the fuselage broken in the center, which will be fixed very soon. This was a glow setup. In fact Sanjay sir pointed out that the elevator seemingly had a problem but I was quite sure I had not changed the settings since last time (which of course was incorrect).

Crash Investigation report:

1. The servo arm had come out and I had casually put it in last time on the workbench, without realizing the hex arm was twisted about 30 degrees before putting back in, clearly pulling on the elevator in neutral.
2. The servo screw was missing.
3. *Most Important* I had ignored a warning. Always believing that I had setup some trims last time. I now feel silly on comparing a 75% deflection to that being done by a trim
4. Lesson hard learnt. Lesson well learnt. 

Join the club boss - I have taken off a couple of times with the
controls reversed or wrong memory selected or worst of all just
started the engine and taken off without switching the rcvr on

Quote from: saikat on May 22, 2013, 11:15:08 AM

started the engine and taken off without switching the rcvr on

How is that possible? i mean you people don't check controls before starting engine or after? even experienced flyer will check everything is in normal!

Lol 

Oil's well that ends well 

Read this GS

http://www.rcindia.org/beginners-zone/conquer-your-maiden-flight-woes!!!/msg140568/#msg140568

The T alone would have saved the day here!

Quote from: praveen on May 22, 2013, 01:35:38 PM
even experienced flyer will check everything is in normal!

That's what makes them experienced... TAFFIHC each time, TAFFIHC every time. Thank you Gusty sir. Out of curiosity,

Quote(Modified for RC Flying)

what does TAFFIHC expand to in the non-rc world.

correct model and controls

"Model match" feature like on the the DX6i prevents selecting wrong model.  The plane RX will not respond to the wrong model.