Hi Guys

In need of advice again. I am new to helicopters, that said i thought i was going down the learning road at a good pace. Then a screw came out of the heli and down it came. The result £60 of damage. I am in the UK by the way!! Heli back together i sought the advice of a club some 60 miles from my home. They trimmed the heli out and back to practicing i went. The members at the club felt that the Shuttle i had was very loose, apparently this makes it difficult to lean on. I was also running the motor rich as i would in a plane which they also said was wrong. Back home in my local park i went to practice. all went well for the first couple of days, then i leaned the motor out. The shuttle was almost unflyable for me! I opened the throttle and up it went 35 feet in the air. Slowly i cut the throttle and even with only -1 degree of negative pitch it dropped like a stone. Again i throttled up this time it shot up to 50 feet. By now i new i was in proper trouble. Any not to bore you any longer there is over £110 of damage.

My Question then. Given the fact that in the UK a new shuttle kit is £159 would it benefit me to buy a new shuttle or are they all loose even from new?

The alternative is to buy a Raptor 30 kit at £210 and swap my gear and motor which is an O.S.32 across. I still have a mechanical gyro is this advisable to use.

Option 3 is to give up and go back to being a plank flier.

What would you do??????????????????

Hope to here from some of you soon.

Thanks for the advice i know i will get in advance.

Paul