Read PPM signals from RC receiver or Control

Or, more lazily, if you lose the receiver switch off engine, pop parachute, and it all floats gently downward... to land on a road and be mangled by a passing truck. :slight_smile:

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When I was a teenager there was a guy at the local flying field who landed that way.

Instead of landing in the usual manner, he would fly ~50 feet over the field, then when he pulled both the throttle trim and throttle all the way back the engine would cut off, and (what would be on full scale aircraft) the engine cowling and part of the windshield were released and a parachute, tied to the wing spar, came out.

First time I saw it I thought it was a great trick. Soon discovered he always landed that way. Wasn't till much later I learned that he crashed so much on landing, that one time he blew such a fit, stomping the poo out of his aircraft that he injured his foot (control rod went through the sole of his shoe into his foot). While waiting in the ER he had the idea to rig his next plane to eject the cowling (held down in front by an extra tab on the throttle servo control wire). A 2 or 3 foot nylon chute was folded and mashed against some open cell foam on top of the fuel tank, and held in by the cowling.