Share your ideas for safe pre-flight and flying

[JAG]

I'm bad about range checking. I need to get into the habit of adding that to my routine for sure. For sure now that I'm building bigger and more expensive planes.

 

[thurmma]

drowns out all the voices in my head and allows me to focus on only one voice

 

[thurmma]

turn on your transmitter and check all systems and function on your plane BEFORE you secure the canopy

I have actually started doing this just in case something doesn't work I can take care of it before buttoning up the canopy

 

[Jetpainter]

I think a new thing I'm going to add to my routine is to turn on each switch separately to check that A. I plugged in the battery for that switch and B. That switch actually still works.

 

[Robotech]

I think a new thing I'm going to add to my routine is to turn on each switch separately to check that A. I plugged in the battery for that switch and B. That switch actually still works.

That is part of my routine now. I use Wolverine switches and before the canopy goes on I turn each switch on and off independently to make sure both batteries are in the circuit.

 

[Pistolera]

That is part of my routine now. I use Wolverine switches and before the canopy goes on I turn each switch on and off independently to make sure both batteries are in the circuit.

Me too....and I do this every time I energize the bunny

 

[stangflyer]

Guilty as charged. Guess I'm so use to multi-tasking at work that I've never really given it a second thought. Feel free to talk to me anytime (except when I'm using the restroom. I hate that). I think my brain actually works better when someone is chewing on my ear. I think it drowns out all the voices in my head and allows me to focus on only one voice.

Does this really help with the voices in your head? Sometimes I have so many voices going on, it sounds like a damn train station. Then while I'm flying, I hear one that says, hey...try this. Another voice that says, oh no you dont. And then a third that says, chicken. So of course I listen to the first voice and invariably a fourth voice pipes in and says, see? I told ya so. Ugh... I need a padded room at the end of some flights. Lol

 

[ChickenBalls]

Does this really help with the voices in your head? Sometimes I have so many voices going on, it sounds like a damn train station. Then while I'm flying, I hear one that says, hey...try this. Another voice that says, oh no you dont. And then a third that says, chicken. So of course I listen to the first voice and invariably a fourth voice pipes in and says, see? I told ya so. Ugh... I need a padded room at the end of some flights. Lol

Rob same here. Voices are chattin up a storm in there, it's really messed up when they start arguing with one another, like I'm not even there. I think I'm ok though, I haven't started talking or arguing back at them YET.

 

[-Rick-]

I get the plane on the runway ready to go, but I will do one last check on the control surfaces to make sure all is well before taking off. And I always use a chicken stick of some kind, for the smaller planes a custom stick made for me by a friend. Larger planes (150cc) I use the paint roller, took a while to get used to it but it works for me now.

 

[stangflyer]

Rob same here. Voices are chattin up a storm in there, it's really messed up when they start arguing with one another, like I'm not even there. I think I'm ok though, I haven't started talking or arguing back at them YET.

You're not too far gone then. I've been answering them for a while now. But the upside is, you can blame the voices for some really dumb thumbs.