RE: Bdavison's E-flite Blade Assembly
I still disagree with you on the CF blades bdavison. When I crash these days it's going to break everything. My last crash not only took out my CF blades but also the entire head. Sure if all you are doing is hovering and you are still occasionally scuffing the blades on the ground the CF blades are better but I've not scuffed a blade in months. To put it in perspective, my last crash cost $75 to fix the heli. That was just in parts. That did not include replacing the CF blades that were broken. Had I been using the woodies I most likely would not have destroyed the head at all. All told I'd say those CF blades ended up costing me well over $100 in damage to my wallet. My woodies track just as good as the CF blades ever did. I'm just not going to spend that money again. $15 for the types of crashes is much easier than $100.
I'm going to wait until I'm capable of doing all of the acrobatics I can do with this heli and I've not crashed in months before I put the CF blades on this thing and by that time I'll probably be moving up to a trex or some other heli.
As far as hitting the idle up switch accidentally I'm not sure how that could cause the heli to fly around the room. If the heli was pretty much shut down like you say hitting the idle up switch would simply push the heli into the ground due the the negative pitch of the blades. Unless you were already at over half throttle the heli would have simply fallen hard to the ground.