Sharing my mistakes so that others can avoid them.

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Sharing my mistakes so that others can avoid them.

  1. Flaperons on the X-UAV Talon give unexpected very sharp nose down behaviour, and unfortunately the 1s+ delay added by apm plane on flaps activation caught me by surprise
  2. When you have a heavier plane, keep in mind that control surfaces have to deal with a lot more weight, which in my case caused a ruddervator to come unglued and fly off as I was trying to recover from the nosedive.

http://marc.merlins.org/perso/rc/post_2015-08-13_My-First-X-UAV-Talon_-and-its-demise.html

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Had a plane doing a serious crash on a maiden. Lipo caught fire. Lesson was to try out new models with smaller batteries. Keept a 5000 mah battery in the end of the plane resulting in it ramming through all the electronics in around 90 kph before catching fire. Gave crash and burn a very real reference for me :slight_smile: