Interesting comments here. Having flown RC off and on for 47 years, my two cents is that if he could pull off a halfway decent knife-edge, then he was skillful enough to pilot a high-wing, buoyant, stable aircraft like a carbon cub. It appeared to me to be some kind of radio glitch or perhaps a servo tray coming loose, as there was a simultaneous engine hiccup and down elevator spasm (maybe the engine misfired due to negative Gs). It was most definitely not a stall.
The first landing was super sketchy. To slow on the downwind? That makes no sense. He was in a dive. The elevator flutter is consistent with digital servo flutter from when your right thumb slips off the stick. The guy is a sketchy flier. Too much money not enough time and skill on that plane.
Very well formulated. Glad it happened in the confinement of an airfield w/o endangering anybody. And overall competencies shown in flying up to the discrepancy leading to impact was already not matching the size of the model and needed mastering…
Gyro would have likely caused a higher frequency of oscillations but could have been the cause. However if you listen to the sound carefully you can hear a couple changes in RPM which suggest an intermttent failsafe. These rpm changes correspond with the pitch oscillations. Looks like he was flying jeti so it would have logged any radio issues. Hopefully he lets us know the true cause of the accident as im sure many jeti users like myself would be very interested in seeing if it was a radio issue
Looked like more throw than flutter. Flutter usually happens so rapidly the control surface is destroyed. Looks possibly like the linkage let go, or control horn failed.
Called a radio lockout. Listen to the "hit" on the throttle servo a second before the elevator pitched down. Easy to see and hear with the eyes and ears!!
On a large aircraft I'm pretty sure you'd hear the flutter if it was present, but he was well below the speed I'd expect flutter. The prior flight had a fast flyby without any issue.
Sorry to see that Regardless as to skill vrs plane, money vrs skill. (and so on) I said to myself I was not going to speculate in comments,. but... The approach seemed too hot and too aggressive of a descent for any kind of thought for a landing. Also the barn door flaps down made me cringe,. I thought certainly we would see a tip stall or wing drop. But he kept enough power in that, that didn't happen. If I was going to say,.. it looked like thumbs goofing up or thumbs still learning. The flight in general looked like a new pilot to me, that should not have been turned loose on a plane that nice. Starting with the 1st. taxi and then 6 foot take off. and the 1st landing was almost a crash.... my gut says the plane was nose heavy. That mixed with, be it pilot error or equipment error, spelled disaster at any rate. Sad to see such a nice bird returned to kit form. The guy has already taken enough beating losing this plane, Remember we all have been there and may be there again. Cheers.
@@andypc14 I have a whole house full of em “mate”. Owning and flying RC planes is like owning a car chasing dog. You don’t want to get too attached to them. They might be gone in a blink.
Aerodynamic loads on the elevator were overpowering the servo. Or a servo failure. It was a slow up and down movement and definitely not elevator flutter.
Remember this - The difference between a model and "real" is the "real" aircraft is designed to carry people. A model is not. However, that thing would easily haul a cat or small dog :)
@@christopherknee5756 you must fly patterns all day with a 1983 Avistar, My 120cc Beast get abused to death at full throttle. This guy seems to be a pretty shitty pilot judging especially by that first landing.
That was hilarious. The whole horizontal stabilizer looked to flutter until the slow motion showed just both elevators. So that makes me think it was the pilot. Maybe his thumb slipped off the stick or maybe he just messed up.
@@ShockeWulf190 What are you talking about? The flutter was consistent of digital servo flutter when you slip on the sticks. He was going way to fast to recover if he slipped off the right stick. He flew it to the ground. Controlled crash pilot error. Their excuse was too slow on the down wind. At that speed heading toward the ground. If your right thumb slips you are not going to recover. The guy is a sketchy flier. Too much money not enough skill
I agree. He was all over the place on the ground, grabbing radio from eachother like they were nervous little kids. Was trying to fly it like a jet, not a stol plane. Lack of experience and knowledge is the only issue here. !00% pilot error.
I see it as he was trying to get low, or land, and missed. Been flying for years and NEVER lost a plane from "radio failure". If your flying a plane of that caliber, your not using FRSky, your using the best, so how does it failsafe at 100 feet?? Stop using "equipment failure" as an excuse for bad piloting!!!!!!! He was all over the place on the ground, and in the air.
@@ChainsawFPV FRSKY is one of the best systems in the market now days. I fly Frsky on 3 giant scale planes and have never had a problem, can’t say the same why I was on JR or Spektrum
@@crgonzalez08 Tracer and ELRS are the only Rx systems I trust. FRSky, FlySky and Spectrum are nothing but problems.. There is a constant supply of videos of people having issues on them. Never once have I seen a video on someone losing a plane on ELRS or TBS.
@@crgonzalez08 I had a FrSky X9E and had some unexplained problems during flight what seems to be radio interferences. After a long time i found some hints on the net that the problems may be caused by the connectors of the gimbals. So I opened up my X9E transmitter while in operation. As soon as I just touched the Connectors some Servos go crazy. So it was clearly a fault of that connectors. The easy solution was just to kick out that connectors and to solder the wires directly to the PCB. No more problems since than! So even a good transmitter may have some problems!
As a veteran pilot of General Aviation it appears to me it was an accelerated stall. The plane can stall at any airspeed or angle of bank. If the angle of attack is exceeded at any airspeed, angle of bank or position of the nose even straight down the wing will quit producing lift. In most GA planes that is about 18° angle of attack (angle of the chord line of the wing and the relative wind). I don’t know anything about servos or radio control aircraft but I have a great deal of knowledge about GA aircraft.
The pilot flew the plane beyond the limits of the electronics. Elevator servo drew too much power and starved power from the other servos - hence why the engine was intermittently glitching out. I don't think it's the radio or elevator's fault. Pilot flew too fast on a plane meant to be flown slowly.
Any large scale radio install should have power distribution systems capable of producing more than any modern servo would normally draw and they also isolate each servo so any short will only effect that individual channel. They also run off of multiple batteries and receivers that can be isolated/ignored when a fault is detected. This is common practice now, with some radio manufacturers even offering power distribution and redundant features in their flagship receiver packages. My largest sailplane uses not only two main radio batteries and four independent signal sources/receivers, but I also run all non-critical servo functions through a completely separate power distribution system running on it's own power source. If a retract servo or brake servo locks up and completely drains the secondary power source, my flight controls aren't effected in the least. If you are flying something this big without multiple redundancies in your radio set up, you are not only a fool, but are endangering all those around you when your large scale model is powered up and/or flying.
I would say 100% radio issue, cutting in and out. The oscillations along with engine cutting in and out are like the link going in and out of failsafe.
I have a FLAT wing cub I built and flew the PANTS off it, it lies unflown now, but I will tell you knife edge no problems, I think he lost the elevator servo, I fly at this field too, Markham Park. Beautiful site. Sorry to see this loss of such a nice bird.
That’s a possibility. If so then he had his failsafe all messed up. Lockouts do tend to happen more often from head on flying if no rx is mounted high or low enough
@@thatairplaneguy it’s 100% lockout. Big problem out there for many many years. They see engine power like it was supposed to. It came back for a second and cut it again.
Looks more like when he got it really cooking the elevator fluttered...could also be if he had a gyro the gains were too high and the speed exposed that so it oscillated. I think he cut the throttle himself. Either way the elevator fluttered for sure, and saying it was 100% anything is a stretch without being there. We're all guessing. Lol.
@@ModelAV8RChannel that’s my home flying field. I’ve got people who were there and problems with Jeti lately. I will bet on it being a lock out. You can hear and see it. No way he pulled throttle and back on that quickly. Trust me when I say radio lock outs are a daily issue there. All pretty much on the right side of the field (where it locked out). That was not flutter that was glitching.
@@westhobbiesrc8051 Interesting it would only affect the elevator then? I wouldn't think the elevator on that plane would react that fast. Sure did look like flutter but maybe not. Did he have telemetry? Anyway, lock out or whatever it was it sucks regardless...nice plane. I feel for him.
Dammit that sucks. So sorry for your loss bro I saw that elevator fluttered. $10,000 plane bro. I am sorry to hear that bro. It’s part of the hobby man. Shit happens to everybody it happens to us all man. I’ve been there
Man I tell ya. I'm seeing a lot of nice birds crashing due to brown outs. I thought this new technology was supposed to be bulletproof. Makes me want my old Hitech and Futaba stuff back lol.
To me it looked like signal loss with the simultaneous engine surge and pitch oscillation just before the carnage. If I've learned one thing, whether it's a $5 or a $10,000 aircraft, they all seem to have an expiration date!
Obviously the elevator fluttered. But I don't think he was going fast enough for an aerodynamic flutter. You could also hear the engine surge. I think radio problem caused elevator to flutter and engine to surge and hence crash.
All the signs of pushrod (bending) overload. Always ‘pull’ for up elevator (horn on top) never ‘push’ (horn on underside). I also learned the hard way.
Here’s my two cents looks like classic elevator flutter. Check your servos and linkages,I think you’ll find stripped gears. When flying giant scale airplanes you’re only as good as your weakest link and it’s good advice to fly it like a scale airplane.
Wow! .....the ground just came up and got that thing! .....i suspect massive servo power loading on that RX power buss. On my large models i use a UBEC in parallel with ESC RX power, i beef up the RX power rails and i got a 10,000uf 25V capacitor across the RX power rail.
@poochies0316 One way i've used is to carefully run solder across all the positive (center pins) and also the negative pins, thus creating two rails that can handle greater current. I use heavier gauge wire to connect these to a UBEC or a dedicated RX LiFe battery. I may also use a 10000uf 25V capacitor at this point. Long servo lead runs like aileron and elevator I do with heavy duty servo extensions. I may also use a heavy duty "Y" lead out at those servos and plug 4700uf or 10000uf caps out at those points to buffer current demand at those servos to mitigate voltage drops at those points during moments of high current demands. I have this presently on my Bergen Gasser and Turbine helicopters, my 120mm EDF Ultra Viper jet and my new T-28 Trojan.
Ouch! That was painful to watch! 😱 Sorry for your loss... The RC Gods claimed your plane as a sacrifice. You became another victim of the dark side of our hobby... 😱 Thanks for sharing!... Have a great day. Greetings from Douglas, Arizona 🌵🌵👍🏾😊🇵🇷
Bank balance seems to exceed setup and flying skills. I've seen it many times over my 50+ years model flying experience. Only yesterday, a loads-a-money newby did a horrible hand launch of their fancy new EDF jet. Boom, into the ground. Undeterred, they will buy another one for next week! Only passed their proficiency test (BMFA A certificate) a couple of weeks ago and already want to go for their B certificate. God save us. I hope I'm wrong and it was a dodgy servo or other electronic equipment failure. It's very rare these days, though. If you don't want keyboard post-mortems, then don't post 😉
@@johnnichol9412 Every field has the crusty old farts sitting up under the clubhouse & who nobody has ever seen fly anything, judging everybody else. Clearly Mr. Hutson is "that guy"
Why TF does a cub that size have 200 CC in it? That's overpowered even for a 3D plane. Then you take this clearly incorrect plane and do a full ,power drive towards the ground. This was 100% user error.
My money is on improper trim , all through the beginning in the go arounds his tail was too high, when he made his final descent to drop down the excess trim combined to dive the plane steeper.
Everyone in here opining about the cause of the crash and I’m over here just hoping the camera person gets some treatment for the epilepsy they appear to be suffering from.
Fresnel zone. I’d be checking into it if I were flying expensive RC planes in that area. I dinged up one rc plane at our local fly field coming in for a landing. Many thoughts and checks performed. It never happened again with that plane. Fixed and flew it several more times without issue. Went back to that field again with another plane. Flew around fine made several flights. Came in on a similar approach this time with a larger Aero Works Bravata. I could clearly tell that something was knocking my radio out of sync. Another club member informed me that I was making a mistake flying in with that approach angle. Somewhere at around 30 to 35 degrees. He suggested several expensive options or just standing in a different location if I was going to take that landing approach. He also explained that having my antenna on my receiver extended straight out was not a good idea in these conditions. Fold it up 90 degrees.
Even if it’s just a hobby, one small mistake or a material defect, and everything is ruined. No, no, no. Only model airplanes with a max limit of $500! Anything beyond that is pure madness.
From the sound, it was running too rich. The dive caused the engine to get a little more fuel than it could burn due to the richness (lack to air to fuel to ration). When the engine stared to lose its efficiency it pulled enough power from the servos to disrupt them causing the accident.
Looks like there were some elevator, Flutter. It had nothing to do with flying speed, I fly my cub at half the speed that one was going and it flies perfectly fine.
@@mam362 The pair showed multiple amateurish things - from the power up whilst he held the rudder, the flying, the take off, motor tuning. Impossible to tell what went wrong without more info. ? Had it been flown before? Has CG been checked (looked very twitchy /pitching during flight. Was a gyro used - if yes, was it on during whole flight?
Oh sorry! I think the CG was too forward, so during the dive the elevator couldn't bring it up whilst the engine power was low. Aerodynamic loading on elevator
Went into failsafe. You can hear the motor go to reduced throttle and the elevator centers. He was pulling up and then you hear the motor cut and the elevator goes to neutral again. It did it twice in those 1-2 seconds before the impact. Ugh.... sickening feeling.
Hello, good morning, dear friends! I notice that in the last seconds of the impact you can hear the acceleration and deceleration of the engine as well as the erratic movement of the rudder and elevator. I am very sorry about the accident. Greetings and good luck. Luke
Can't tell if the flaps are down or not. If they were it could have a been an elevator - Flap compensation deal. It looked like the elevator wasn't mixed well with the flaps on the first landing. Also, didn't see any right turns during the video. Suggests maybe a little less competency.
Pilot had no idea how to fly a Carbon Cub or too weak hardware was installed. Full throttle should only be applied on uplines, all other flying should be at half or less throttle. Plenty of throttle and speed before the crash, either flutter, linkage, servo or pilot failure/error.
If you think it was too slow on a downwind then you need help
😂 true that!
Flutter, servo failure or pushrod failure. My side hurts from laughing! sorry.
100% pilot error.
I thought the same thing 😂
yes, exactly my thoughts 😅👍
elevator flutter or maybe just elevator control/limnage failure in my opinion
Interesting comments here. Having flown RC off and on for 47 years, my two cents is that if he could pull off a halfway decent knife-edge, then he was skillful enough to pilot a high-wing, buoyant, stable aircraft like a carbon cub. It appeared to me to be some kind of radio glitch or perhaps a servo tray coming loose, as there was a simultaneous engine hiccup and down elevator spasm (maybe the engine misfired due to negative Gs). It was most definitely not a stall.
I agree 100%, been flying since the 1960s
Definitely not a stall
But maybe confused and made an up elevator rather than down.
It went in hard on a minor downline. Look like an elevator servo failure to me. Didn't see any pilot error on that
Then why was the throttle on full blast when it happened?
The first landing was super sketchy. To slow on the downwind? That makes no sense. He was in a dive. The elevator flutter is consistent with digital servo flutter from when your right thumb slips off the stick. The guy is a sketchy flier. Too much money not enough time and skill on that plane.
And Camera Crew needs to switch to decaf 👍
Exactly. This was a perfect example of more money then skill.
Very well formulated. Glad it happened in the confinement of an airfield w/o endangering anybody. And overall competencies shown in flying up to the discrepancy leading to impact was already not matching the size of the model and needed mastering…
Bingo!
Exactly! Evident at start he was over his head
Radio failure. Engine was intermittently failsafeing right before impact
If there was a gyro inside, there ist the reason.
to much gain brings flutter on higher speeds. Just easy as this
Bull…. That was pilot error all day!
Gyro would have likely caused a higher frequency of oscillations but could have been the cause. However if you listen to the sound carefully you can hear a couple changes in RPM which suggest an intermttent failsafe. These rpm changes correspond with the pitch oscillations. Looks like he was flying jeti so it would have logged any radio issues. Hopefully he lets us know the true cause of the accident as im sure many jeti users like myself would be very interested in seeing if it was a radio issue
I think not.
Looks like flutter on the elevator
Looked like more throw than flutter. Flutter usually happens so rapidly the control surface is destroyed. Looks possibly like the linkage let go, or control horn failed.
Flutter is a rapid vibration of the surface, that was an up and down movement repeated three times.
Called a radio lockout. Listen to the "hit" on the throttle servo a second before the elevator pitched down. Easy to see and hear with the eyes and ears!!
On a large aircraft I'm pretty sure you'd hear the flutter if it was present, but he was well below the speed I'd expect flutter. The prior flight had a fast flyby without any issue.
@@johnnichol9412 For sure, and the elevators moving appeared faster than the sticks could be moved to make that happen.
Sorry to see that Regardless as to skill vrs plane, money vrs skill. (and so on)
I said to myself I was not going to speculate in comments,. but...
The approach seemed too hot and too aggressive of a descent for any kind of thought for a landing.
Also the barn door flaps down made me cringe,. I thought certainly we would see a tip stall or wing drop.
But he kept enough power in that, that didn't happen.
If I was going to say,.. it looked like thumbs goofing up or thumbs still learning.
The flight in general looked like a new pilot to me, that should not have been turned loose on a plane that nice.
Starting with the 1st. taxi and then 6 foot take off. and the 1st landing was almost a crash.... my gut says the plane was nose heavy.
That mixed with, be it pilot error or equipment error, spelled disaster at any rate.
Sad to see such a nice bird returned to kit form.
The guy has already taken enough beating losing this plane,
Remember we all have been there and may be there again.
Cheers.
The sound of the engine skidding down the runway cracked me up.
Nothing funny about that mate unless you actually don’t fly rc planes and just get some weird kick watching folks crash them
@@andypc14 I have a whole house full of em “mate”. Owning and flying RC planes is like owning a car chasing dog. You don’t want to get too attached to them. They might be gone in a blink.
Aerodynamic loads on the elevator were overpowering the servo. Or a servo failure. It was a slow up and down movement and definitely not elevator flutter.
I agree, you can see elevator control, not flutter. Weight & load on servos at that speed and downward angle was more than servos could handle.
I played it back in slow mo and you can see the elevator moving up and down ...i`d say radio !!!!!!
Radio "lockout", "hit", as plain as day!!
The more expensive and bigger they get the more checks you do... the whole thing is approaching the full size protocol.
Remember this - The difference between a model and "real" is the "real" aircraft is designed to carry people. A model is not. However, that thing would easily haul a cat or small dog :)
And, the bigger they are, the more things you don't do - like trying to zoom the runway at high speed.
@@christopherknee5756 There is nothing wrong with that if its built correctly
@@christopherknee5756 you must fly patterns all day with a 1983 Avistar, My 120cc Beast get abused to death at full throttle. This guy seems to be a pretty shitty pilot judging especially by that first landing.
You should not fly a Piper so fast.
That was hilarious.
The whole horizontal stabilizer looked to flutter until the slow motion showed just both elevators. So that makes me think it was the pilot. Maybe his thumb slipped off the stick or maybe he just messed up.
If your thumbs slip it shouldn't take THAT long to recover... had to be a structural failure of some sorts
@@ShockeWulf190 What are you talking about? The flutter was consistent of digital servo flutter when you slip on the sticks. He was going way to fast to recover if he slipped off the right stick. He flew it to the ground. Controlled crash pilot error. Their excuse was too slow on the down wind. At that speed heading toward the ground. If your right thumb slips you are not going to recover. The guy is a sketchy flier. Too much money not enough skill
I agree. He was all over the place on the ground, grabbing radio from eachother like they were nervous little kids. Was trying to fly it like a jet, not a stol plane. Lack of experience and knowledge is the only issue here. !00% pilot error.
I see it as he was trying to get low, or land, and missed. Been flying for years and NEVER lost a plane from "radio failure". If your flying a plane of that caliber, your not using FRSky, your using the best, so how does it failsafe at 100 feet?? Stop using "equipment failure" as an excuse for bad piloting!!!!!!! He was all over the place on the ground, and in the air.
@@ChainsawFPV FRSKY is one of the best systems in the market now days. I fly Frsky on 3 giant scale planes and have never had a problem, can’t say the same why I was on JR or Spektrum
@@crgonzalez08 Tracer and ELRS are the only Rx systems I trust. FRSky, FlySky and Spectrum are nothing but problems.. There is a constant supply of videos of people having issues on them. Never once have I seen a video on someone losing a plane on ELRS or TBS.
@@crgonzalez08 man people have no idea how good frsky is now...
@@crgonzalez08 I had a FrSky X9E and had some unexplained problems during flight what seems to be radio interferences. After a long time i found some hints on the net that the problems may be caused by the connectors of the gimbals. So I opened up my X9E transmitter while in operation. As soon as I just touched the Connectors some Servos go crazy. So it was clearly a fault of that connectors. The easy solution was just to kick out that connectors and to solder the wires directly to the PCB. No more problems since than! So even a good transmitter may have some problems!
The nose still wanted to keep going.."what ground?" Dang, sorry to see such a sweet bird de-feathered like that!
The main cause is flying it like a 1970's piped .60 pattern plane. Cub's don't make high speed passes.
thats right
I have a FLAT wing cub, it is areobatic for sure, I think he lost the elevator servo
Looks like it went off the air (failsafe). Notice the engine change note too.
As a veteran pilot of General Aviation it appears to me it was an accelerated stall. The plane can stall at any airspeed or angle of bank. If the angle of attack is exceeded at any airspeed, angle of bank or position of the nose even straight down the wing will quit producing lift. In most GA planes that is about 18° angle of attack (angle of the chord line of the wing and the relative wind). I don’t know anything about servos or radio control aircraft but I have a great deal of knowledge about GA aircraft.
Radio…. Throttle and elevator glitching. Sorry to see that happen .
He might have manually reduced the throttle to stop the elevator flutter
Exactly!! So simple, yet you have people on here writting thesis papers as to what happened. Man. it's so funny. These people kill me!!
Lord I remember a newbie turning on his radio next to me my Chipmunk dived straight in. Looked very familiar.
The pilot flew the plane beyond the limits of the electronics. Elevator servo drew too much power and starved power from the other servos - hence why the engine was intermittently glitching out. I don't think it's the radio or elevator's fault. Pilot flew too fast on a plane meant to be flown slowly.
Any large scale radio install should have power distribution systems capable of producing more than any modern servo would normally draw and they also isolate each servo so any short will only effect that individual channel. They also run off of multiple batteries and receivers that can be isolated/ignored when a fault is detected. This is common practice now, with some radio manufacturers even offering power distribution and redundant features in their flagship receiver packages.
My largest sailplane uses not only two main radio batteries and four independent signal sources/receivers, but I also run all non-critical servo functions through a completely separate power distribution system running on it's own power source. If a retract servo or brake servo locks up and completely drains the secondary power source, my flight controls aren't effected in the least.
If you are flying something this big without multiple redundancies in your radio set up, you are not only a fool, but are endangering all those around you when your large scale model is powered up and/or flying.
Nope Sorry. Don't try and make something that's so easily obvious, in to something difficult!!
looked like a complete glitch for some reason. note the engine slowed down then picked up again in conjuction with the elevator! what a shame!
I flew my P51 today, 2 very scary and fast maiden flights, landings were bounced but survived.
I would say 100% radio issue, cutting in and out. The oscillations along with engine cutting in and out are like the link going in and out of failsafe.
Pilot error trying to hot dog a pass too low and panicked ;)
I have a FLAT wing cub I built and flew the PANTS off it, it lies unflown now, but I will tell you knife edge no problems, I think he lost the elevator servo, I fly at this field too, Markham Park. Beautiful site. Sorry to see this loss of such a nice bird.
Radio lock out. Hear the throttle? Lost signal.
That’s a possibility. If so then he had his failsafe all messed up.
Lockouts do tend to happen more often from head on flying if no rx is mounted high or low enough
@@thatairplaneguy it’s 100% lockout. Big problem out there for many many years. They see engine power like it was supposed to. It came back for a second and cut it again.
Looks more like when he got it really cooking the elevator fluttered...could also be if he had a gyro the gains were too high and the speed exposed that so it oscillated. I think he cut the throttle himself. Either way the elevator fluttered for sure, and saying it was 100% anything is a stretch without being there. We're all guessing. Lol.
@@ModelAV8RChannel that’s my home flying field. I’ve got people who were there and problems with Jeti lately. I will bet on it being a lock out. You can hear and see it. No way he pulled throttle and back on that quickly. Trust me when I say radio lock outs are a daily issue there. All pretty much on the right side of the field (where it locked out). That was not flutter that was glitching.
@@westhobbiesrc8051 Interesting it would only affect the elevator then? I wouldn't think the elevator on that plane would react that fast. Sure did look like flutter but maybe not. Did he have telemetry? Anyway, lock out or whatever it was it sucks regardless...nice plane. I feel for him.
Seems to be the failsafe kicked in at the last moment... Sorry for the loss...
Dammit that sucks. So sorry for your loss bro I saw that elevator fluttered. $10,000 plane bro. I am sorry to hear that bro. It’s part of the hobby man. Shit happens to everybody it happens to us all man. I’ve been there
Definitely felt that, ouch, I'm sorry that happened..
Had something similar when the spark plug cap came loose and did the same thing but luckily it was on the ground
"No problem. Little bit of duct tape, and it'll be back in the air in no time." Red Green
Only one thing lacking here, unfortunately.... proper flying skills, and that' all there is to it.
That was a nice looking plane......WAS.......DARN !
Elevator failure if he was changing throttle. Seems too close for signal loss. Possible low voltage to rx.
Man I tell ya. I'm seeing a lot of nice birds crashing due to brown outs. I thought this new technology was supposed to be bulletproof. Makes me want my old Hitech and Futaba stuff back lol.
To me it looked like signal loss with the simultaneous engine surge and pitch oscillation just before the carnage. If I've learned one thing, whether it's a $5 or a $10,000 aircraft, they all seem to have an expiration date!
Wow man, that’s a lot of hard work smashed up my condolence to the owner
I feel for you man. I think that elevator locked up.
Obviously the elevator fluttered. But I don't think he was going fast enough for an aerodynamic flutter. You could also hear the engine surge. I think radio problem caused elevator to flutter and engine to surge and hence crash.
perfect example of flutter and why over speeding an aircraft is so dangerous.
All good comments here. My two cents is either an elevator servo failure or elevator flutter due to over speed, dunno.....
if you feel it....go PICK IT UP
Elevator flutter in that dive. Elevator linkage and or hinges not solid enough to handle the speed.
Its now a puzzle that can be glued back together. Meanwhile get a Tower 40 Trainer and get some practice.
Perhaps his antenna was pointing diectly at the plane (which reduces the signal strength), causing the failsafe power cut and elevator to lock.
All the signs of pushrod (bending) overload. Always ‘pull’ for up elevator (horn on top) never ‘push’ (horn on underside). I also learned the hard way.
True Mayhem Park style! Gotta love it!!
Here’s my two cents looks like classic elevator flutter. Check your servos and linkages,I think you’ll find stripped gears. When flying giant scale airplanes you’re only as good as your weakest link and it’s good advice to fly it like a scale airplane.
Elevators dont flutter that slowly.
That will fit in the car a lot easier !
Wow! .....the ground just came up and got that thing! .....i suspect massive servo power loading on that RX power buss. On my large models i use a UBEC in parallel with ESC RX power, i beef up the RX power rails and i got a 10,000uf 25V capacitor across the RX power rail.
how do you beef up rx power rails ?
@poochies0316 One way i've used is to carefully run solder across all the positive (center pins) and also the negative pins, thus creating two rails that can handle greater current. I use heavier gauge wire to connect these to a UBEC or a dedicated RX LiFe battery. I may also use a 10000uf 25V capacitor at this point. Long servo lead runs like aileron and elevator I do with heavy duty servo extensions. I may also use a heavy duty "Y" lead out at those servos and plug 4700uf or 10000uf caps out at those points to buffer current demand at those servos to mitigate voltage drops at those points during moments of high current demands. I have this presently on my Bergen Gasser and Turbine helicopters, my 120mm EDF Ultra Viper jet and my new T-28 Trojan.
@@cletusberkeley9441 interesting thx I always wondered how much can those little pins and sockets on plug ends handle current wise thx for the tip
Radio failure or rx power issue. The engine dipped twice and then the elevator pointed the thing into the ground.
Ouch! That was painful to watch! 😱 Sorry for your loss... The RC Gods claimed your plane as a sacrifice. You became another victim of the dark side of our hobby... 😱
Thanks for sharing!... Have a great day. Greetings from Douglas, Arizona 🌵🌵👍🏾😊🇵🇷
Bank balance seems to exceed setup and flying skills. I've seen it many times over my 50+ years model flying experience. Only yesterday, a loads-a-money newby did a horrible hand launch of their fancy new EDF jet. Boom, into the ground. Undeterred, they will buy another one for next week! Only passed their proficiency test (BMFA A certificate) a couple of weeks ago and already want to go for their B certificate. God save us.
I hope I'm wrong and it was a dodgy servo or other electronic equipment failure. It's very rare these days, though.
If you don't want keyboard post-mortems, then don't post 😉
It's good to hear from someone who has never crashed a plane.
@@johnnichol9412 Every field has the crusty old farts sitting up under the clubhouse & who nobody has ever seen fly anything, judging everybody else. Clearly Mr. Hutson is "that guy"
Why TF does a cub that size have 200 CC in it? That's overpowered even for a 3D plane. Then you take this clearly incorrect plane and do a full ,power drive towards the ground. This was 100% user error.
Normally I say ' that will fir into a paper bag' ....not this time.
maybe a shopping trolley !!!!!
My money is on improper trim , all through the beginning in the go arounds his tail was too high, when he made his final descent to drop down the excess trim combined to dive the plane steeper.
That elevator shouldn’t be fluttering up and down like that on final. You can see it clearly on the slow motion.
I think some horiz stab flutter is inherent to all cubs
Only $2K to replace, keep the old one for spare parts. could have been much worse. Sorry that happened to you.
Ah damn! So sorry to see such beautiful model destroyed. Seems like elevator failed somehow.
Nope!
@@scotabot7826 You said No, the care to provide what was the cause then?
Everyone in here opining about the cause of the crash and I’m over here just hoping the camera person gets some treatment for the epilepsy they appear to be suffering from.
😂- "Elevator Flutter"?
How about the flutter from all the LSD the camera person took before "filming"
yeah the elevator looked like it was stuck
Like butter!
Elevator fluttering like a leaf 😅
This guy definitely felt it
the thing i noticed was he wasn't flying it scale he was flying it way too fast and yanking it around
Just cuz you can buy it
Don't mean you can fly it
😂
Or should ...
Looking at the elevator, it could have been mechanical failure or radio failure.
Fresnel zone. I’d be checking into it if I were flying expensive RC planes in that area.
I dinged up one rc plane at our local fly field coming in for a landing. Many thoughts and checks performed. It never happened again with that plane. Fixed and flew it several more times without issue.
Went back to that field again with another plane. Flew around fine made several flights. Came in on a similar approach this time with a larger Aero Works Bravata. I could clearly tell that something was knocking my radio out of sync.
Another club member informed me that I was making a mistake flying in with that approach angle. Somewhere at around 30 to 35 degrees. He suggested several expensive options or just standing in a different location if I was going to take that landing approach. He also explained that having my antenna on my receiver extended straight out was not a good idea in these conditions. Fold it up 90 degrees.
Even if it’s just a hobby, one small mistake or a material defect, and everything is ruined. No, no, no. Only model airplanes with a max limit of $500! Anything beyond that is pure madness.
Pilot error
Total elevator flutter due to lack of tork or servo horn, that's not radio issue at all.
outch, sorryfor your loss, looks to be a locked elevator servo
I noticed the flaps were down the entire flight. I get a new plane takes some getting used to but it seems like the pilot was inexperienced.
Either flutter or PIO. Too slow on downwind? Not the issue.
I can barely see some elevator fluttering prior to craah.
From the sound, it was running too rich. The dive caused the engine to get a little more fuel than it could burn due to the richness (lack to air to fuel to ration). When the engine stared to lose its efficiency it pulled enough power from the servos to disrupt them causing the accident.
that'll buff right out man
It was flying great until it wasn`t.
Looks like there were some elevator, Flutter. It had nothing to do with flying speed, I fly my cub at half the speed that one was going and it flies perfectly fine.
Such a competent pilot
Not.
says the guy flying from behind his keyboard
@@mam362 The pair showed multiple amateurish things - from the power up whilst he held the rudder, the flying, the take off, motor tuning.
Impossible to tell what went wrong without more info. ? Had it been flown before? Has CG been checked (looked very twitchy /pitching during flight. Was a gyro used - if yes, was it on during whole flight?
I thought the pilot did rush. Forgetting to close the door demonstrated the lack of pre flight checks and wanting it in the air as quick as possible.
That looks like a “ I screwed up” moment. I know because I’ve done them.
Oh sorry! I think the CG was too forward, so during the dive the elevator couldn't bring it up whilst the engine power was low. Aerodynamic loading on elevator
Yup, flew it right into the ground!!
It feels like an issue with the elevator servos
Cheap servos on the elevators?
Nope!
@@scotabot7826 what servos were they?
Went into failsafe. You can hear the motor go to reduced throttle and the elevator centers. He was pulling up and then you hear the motor cut and the elevator goes to neutral again. It did it twice in those 1-2 seconds before the impact. Ugh.... sickening feeling.
The elevator servo looked to be acting up
Hello, good morning, dear friends! I notice that in the last seconds of the impact you can hear the acceleration and deceleration of the engine as well as the erratic movement of the rudder and elevator. I am very sorry about the accident. Greetings and good luck. Luke
Yardsale!! Sorry for your loss...😢
I blame the pink shorts.
😂
Maybe dude is a TailHeavy Productions fan. Someone tell him Zack doesn't actually want him to, "Bounce one on" for him. 👍
That was a $5000 mistake!! Elevator flutter!!! Radio problem!!! Had plenty of airspeed. I have that airplane..solid as a Rock.
This plane was destined for a date with mother earth!
Looks to me it was a radio failure, I see elevator inputs and engine sound changes right before making contact with the ground, ...or, ..bad finger
Watched it again, and it definitely wasn't elevator flutter, so I'm retracting my previous comment.
Can't tell if the flaps are down or not. If they were it could have a been an elevator - Flap compensation deal. It looked like the elevator wasn't mixed well with the flaps on the first landing. Also, didn't see any right turns during the video. Suggests maybe a little less competency.
That was NOT too slow. That was either an elevator malfunction OR a pilot thumb Glitch!!! My call would be a thumb glitch!
Servo or linkage failure along with poor mechanical setup, prone to fail.
Sorry to see that bro, real sorry for you!!! But it can happen.
Pilot had no idea how to fly a Carbon Cub or too weak hardware was installed. Full throttle should only be applied on uplines, all other flying should be at half or less throttle. Plenty of throttle and speed before the crash, either flutter, linkage, servo or pilot failure/error.
I said once and I will say it again: flying at Markham Park, better you wear a helmet!
Mayhem Park