How to come to the flying field, with a proper survival kit

What is a survival kit ? It is usually a box or a bag, that will contain the minimum material to help you overcome the most common, and easy to take care of, problems while on the field. It will eventually change your flying experience from 5 minutes, and go home due to plane problems, to a full day of flying, and eventually repairs, on the spot. It will also contains items, not for your plane, but for you. We'll go over it in a minute.

What you won't want to do is to repair, doing a lousy job, and continue flying. Even if it is tempting to do anything in your power, to fix problems on the spot, it is sometimes worth it to give up, as lousy work gives many times lousy results.

Finally, the kit proposed here is just one of many possible kits. Like some people would tell you that beer is part of a survival kit. Well, it may be right for them as indeed, if they are not fully happy, not having their favorite drink, that could be considered an entry :-)

Survival Kit - Item for the Pilot's needs:

• Sun Cream, as many hours in the field could damage your skin, if not protected

• Simple medical kit. Usually not needed, but a must

• Drinks

Survival Kit - Item for the Plane's needs:

• Iron (and solder) that works on gas. If you crash, it could happen that a connection would break

• Set of screwdrivers and keys

• 2 extra fuses for your battery charger (most charger have fuses)

• Glue (Epoxy and Cyano), with something to mix the epoxy and apply it. For the Cyano, you may add some accelerator, but this is already luxury

• Extra propellers

• Some elastic bands

• On the Nuts and bolts side: a set of extra screws, wires, horns, parts to attach your horns to the wire

• 1 Set of the Electric plugs you use

• Strong re-inforced scotch tape and the regular hobby one

• Insulating tape

• Velcro Band. The one used to attach batteries to the plane. You should have the one which has on one side, already the glue.

All the above seems a long list, but it takes really not much space, and will make your day easier.

Note that you should never mix your batteries in any place, where some item could create a shortcut with its plug, while you would carry it. That will be VERY dangerous as they would heat and eventually could even explode. This can be simply avoided, if you put all your batteries, in a compartment, where there is nothing else, than your batteries. And by the way, this is why the battery connectors are always FEMALE type, to decrease the risks of shortcuts.

All of the above could be even more necessary if you are a professional on making some of the common mistakes. See some of them at "How to avoid Common Mistakes" Section.