LLL or Little Lessons Learned!!

[ray copeland]

Flying my Akromaster Saturday and just having a ball ,, practicing my beginner pattern into the third outside loop , when all of a sudden NO CONTROL!!  You guessed it, straight in !!  May not be able to patch this one..  but,,  looked down at my handle and the lines were hooked together!! This was a set of 52' .012 lines pre made. Looked like eyelets were used for the crimps and one line got caught up under the other.  Started thinking on the way home and this is the third plane smashed on this set of lines, two by someone else that said , " I don't know what happened".  All the lines i make i put shrink tubing over the crimps or wraps.  Lesson learned , just really hate loosing a plane this way!! Who knows, may just get a couple of tubes of epoxy and stick it back together,, but anyway those lines will get worked on!!

[Wynn Robins]

I have had clips hook together during flight - causing multiple loops of ever tightening radii.....had some quick thinking and action and got them unclipped - but didnt smack the plane in.......I figured out I was moving my hand too much to get the model to turn etc

anyway,  the heat shrink sounds like it should sort out your particular problem

[Randy Powell]

A local guy, Bruce Hunt, had a similar problem. He had an inventive solution. He put surgical tubing (the big stuff) over the connections at the handle and out for a few inches. End of problem. I use a hard point handle, so this particular demon doesnt' get me. There are others, trust me.