Hehe nice advice bdavision. I just ordered a ThunderPower 1320mah pack from Pure Hobby and hopefully it will be in by the end of the week. My heli is starting to deteriorate though, the main assembly will probably have to be replaced because the slot where the left skid plugs into in the back is broken off, I fixed it with some aluminum tubing and C/A but it won't hold anymore. My canopy is starting to get torn up as well, and one of the teeth on my main gear actually got chewed off. So it looks like I've got some fixing to do. The main assembly issue isn't serious, because the struts stay in place anyways, but the gear is going to be replaced soon.

I've noticed that although I can hover in winds pretty well, the heli seems to be glitching in windy conditions, like the motor keeps stuttering. I then start to lose control and sometimes crash, which is why I'm not flying in moderate wind anymore. I've checked everything on the heli, and there isn't any issue with interference between the radio and the receiver unless it's one of those times where it gets jumpy, crashes, and then starts spinning up on the ground even though there's no input....

I've also noticed something else that's a little weird. I've gone through two sets of rotor blades where one blade was damaged but the other was perfectly fine. I would open a package of new blades and just replace the bad one, and then try starting up and there was a ton of vibration. I would adjust the blade tracking as best I could but still there was too much vibration. I weighed each blade on a not-so-good scale and got the exact same measurement for both blades: 10 grams. I measured both blades and they're exactly the same in every respect. I then changed the other old blade with the other one from the newly opened pack of extra blades and they work fine. Gonna look more into this, but is anybody else noticing this as well? It's like the rotor blades only work with the other blade in the same pack.

Anyways, I'm getting better now every time I fly, despite those issues I'm having with my heli. I'm going to replace my main drive shaft and left strut and purchase an aerobatic enhancement kit for when the LiPo pack arrives. The only thing that bugs me about this ThunderPower pack is that it does not feature any PCM Charge Guard protection circuitry, like the PolyQuest packs do. But the ThunderPower pack was the right size and weight for the mah rating I needed, the PolyQuest batteries came in either 1100mah or 1500mah, the 1100mah one being the same weight as the TP battery but a little larger, and the 1500mah battery weighing about 20 grams more than the TP battery, so I had to go with the ThunderPower.