I've been flying RC as an adult since 1995.
A few months ago, I set up a hand-me-down giant trainer. I've been running some gasoline engines on it to break them in (MVVS 1.6 and 2.15).
I've got about 41 flights on the plane.
The last two times out, I had some glitches on the elevator. I finally bit the bullet and pulled out the radio yesterday to see what was going on.
I had made my servo leads for the elevator too short. The lead from the switch, which I located near the leading edge, was also short. The effect of the tension between the two leads plus the vibration from the engines was pulling the wires out of the pins in the connectors.
I'm going to be MUCH more careful in my setups in the future to keep slack in the wiring. What was I thinking?
I thought maybe someone could learn from my mistakes.
Marty