hah, i'm 99.9 percent sure its the gyro now, i just turned it on with the transmitter sitting next to me and watched it for about 5 minutes, the tail would go crazy every once in awhile without me touching anything, and sometimes it would move to full right deflection and stay there for seconds at a time, then i took the gyro out of the circuit, and it was solid as a rock

this would obviously make me think its the gyro, but am i not thinking about something else it could be with those same symptoms?