A couple of days ago I was outside hovering my blade, when the "spare" battery came loose and fell to one side. Things went bad from there the heli proceeded to do a circle into the ground. The battery had fallen out a couple of days before this, I said to myself I must put some velcro on that spare battery so it doesn't move. I didn't do it at the time then I forgot about it until it popped loose again, well fell out . I looked for an hour before I found the link from blade to the rotor head. When I inspected the heli the only thing broken was one ball on the rotor head. A trip to the LHS and I was back in business.

Well today I had just finished balancing my blades from various dings they have received, They balanced perfectly, I had carefully taped the covering that was loose. I put the heli on the floor and was going to run them to check the tracking I started to pick up the Tx and my foot caught the neck strap and pulled it off the table, my hand hit the throttle to full and my heli came to life and spinout into the piano bench, so much for the balancing as one blade was smashed into bits and pieces. I have been so diligent about holding the throttle and being careful around the heli and it only took a split second to see it become and angry spinning monster ready to take on anything in it's path.

The aftermath on this adventure/lesson was a new set of blades, and minor tooth damage on the head gear, there was no damage to anything else. I have even more respect for those blades.

I have joined Radd's school of flying and I have notice the same thing another poster commented on, that the heli wants to slide left even when inputting right aileron, it only goes right when you increase the head speed and it actually starts to fly a little on the right skid.
I have been enjoying this heli and will probably buy a raptor in the spring. Between this electric and the AFPD sim I should be well in to the beginning stages for a nitro heli.

This is my first post to this forum even though I have been reading for sometime. This forum is the one of the main reasons I bought this heli. I would like to thank everyone for the info that I have taken from this group and especially to Bdavison for the excellent job of describing the assembly and trimming of this heli, your info has been invaluable.

Thanks
Randy......Blade CP, SPAD Debonair, TT 40