Well I love my Blade.

I have been hovering around my back yard the last couple of weeks and begain working on figure 8's. I decided to go to a park just down the road and had a great time.

This is my first Heli....I was always scared away by the maintenance and setup problems...

Well since I was having a great time, I decided to try a roll. Did 3 that I had to split "S" out off, and got one really nice.

Then it happend. In the middle of another roll....All hell broke loose. The thing just balled itself up and fell out of the sky. I was high enough I was able to flip back to normal mode and throttle down and start walking before it hit.

It didn't look hard. But when I got there I saw canopy pieces, the main shaft bent and various other broken pieces. It seems that a ball link broke off of a blade pitch thingy (can you tell this is my first heli?) And that was all she wrote.

Now the problem. Well, now I tried to fix it, but the setup is ALL wrong. It will not hover and when it does its all over the place and the tail rotor trim is all the way to one side and still not enough.

The manual sucks in this regard. I have no idea how to set one of these up.

I plan on going to my LHS, where I bought the parts and a glow heli to have them look at it.

But I must say that I am a little upset being a guy with no clue and a broken very fun toy.