{"id":181,"date":"2014-09-21T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umflight.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2014-09-21T05:00:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T09:00:14","slug":"remember-to-range-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Remember To RANGE CHECK!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know this is going to be one of my shortest posts. I also know this will be one of my most important posts.<\/p>\n

I recently had a very close call with one of my Champs. Because my DX6 is broken and I didn’t feel like getting out my shiney\u00a0new back-up DX6i, I simply got one of my many RTF package MLP4DSM’s which HH sells under Hobbyzone, Parkzone, and Blade brand names.<\/p>\n

Firstly, I did not bother with a range check because I was going to stand in my driveway and fly the Champ up and down the street. Also, I completely forgot that the MLP4DSM is a low power transmitter like I mentioned in my review of the champ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The DX6 which I usually fly with is a full power transmitter.<\/p>\n

I usually fly my planes way<\/em> down at the end of the street, with me still standing in my driveway controlling it, because there is an empty lot there.<\/p>\n

Long story short, the plane was down over the lot, and the motor power cut out<\/em>, and the Champ started spiraling down.<\/p>\n

It crashed with a thud (I heard it). I was very lucky because it crashed into the bushes separating the empty lot from the house, but that doesn’t usually happen.<\/p>\n

If I had done a range check, I would have seen the reduced range compared to my DX6 and not flown out as far. Additionally, if I would have remembered that the MLP4DSM is a low power transmitter, I would not have flown out as far.<\/p>\n

The moral of the story here is to NEVER fly your first flight of the flying session without a range check.<\/strong> If you don’t, you may end up like me and find out that someone is wrong when it is too late.<\/p>\n

As always, leave a comment if you have a personal story to share about how range checking can save your plane, or to discuss the post!<\/p>\n

See you next Sunday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know this is going to be one of my shortest posts. I also know this will be one of my most important posts. I recently had a very close call with one of my Champs. Because my DX6 is broken and I didn’t feel like getting out my shiney\u00a0new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[27,64,81,112],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kAwJ-2V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umflight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}