I just replied to that post in the host forum. Check it out :P

Wombat! That's a good bit of advice about the LiPo.. hadn't thought of that...

hehe my BCP damage list is pretty good, but I'm still on my first set of Tx AA's, so I know I've only got so-many flight hours... numbering less than 8 heheh. I've had to straighten my main shaft 4 or 5 times, having no replacement... It's one worn-out old fart of a gear now -- a third of its teeth are 75% gone, and the rest are between 50% and 25% -- still flies well. Hehehe I didn't get my BCP out of CP mode quick enough after it last crashed and I saw it scooting along the ground a bit as the drive gear, having no skids to protect it, happily ground itself away on the asphalt... Indeed.. I do believe it's time to replace it heh...

Oh.. and Wombat is right.. The more you crash and repair this sucker, the more you'll learn about how it works and the more confident you become at flying it. I'd say that today I'm 100x more confident behind the BCP's controls than the day I got my BCP.. the day I smashed it into the ground pretty good for the first time... hehe... Having repaired it, and still running my frankenstein'ed stock blades, I'm not afraid of crashing it again at all.. I even had a crowd of kids watching when I plowed it this last time, and they loved the show tho!

oooooh.. Coincidentally, on that last crash, I didn't have hardly any blade damage. I was running my glassed symmetrics, but what I think saved me was my modified training gear. All 4 legs went flying, and because the ping-pongs won't come off the support shaft any more, the blades must have grabbed them and all the high-energy forces were transferred to my skids (and skid mounts) instead... It was a pretty good wreck heh...