RE: Blade Pro direction
Definitely sounds like you need RADD's to me too.
I've had my BCPP for over a month, something like a hundred battery recharges (3 packs) and can still use my first set of flatties that I bought to train on. Of course I've crashed them many times! A little CA, some tape, some sandpaper, rebalance and retrack and you're good to go after most crashes. Sometimes you have to rebuild them fiber-by-fiber, or reprofile the tips, or even straighten out the little weight rod...I use that really thin packing tape for patches, I have some in white and also red.
Of course I'm using the symms more now when I'm pretty sure I won't be tempted to crash...
I rarely fly outside, I hover and swoop in my little 12x15 living room with 7 1/2 foot ceiling. Yesterday I did fly outside, dumped it in from over 15 feet and forgot to hit throttle hold for about a second after it hit the ground, so it did the dead chicken dance--no damage except a torn bit of the plastic skin on one blade, and a trailing edge ding on the other. The spectators were amazed when I just dusted it off and flew it again. Fix em and fly em.
The CF blades are just for show AFAIAC, especially since if they hit something hard in my room they are likely to shatter.