PERFECT FLYING DAY,

until...


Yep, I guess crashes are inevitable. But they can be minimized!

I was just launching after I put in my 3rd pack fresh. My tail was quite a bit off she spun around a bit. I tried to compensate and almost did but I got into an overcorrection back-and-forth cycle on the cyclic.

Probably, I should have hit throttle but that probably would have made a bad situation worse - bolting up without being in control crossed my mind as being a bad thing.

As it was, I came down on the thick wet grass and broke just one main rotor blade. No other damage!!

Woo hoo!! I still have a great feeling about this run!! It was a perfect day, DEAD CALM and I mean DEAD CALM!!! And a bit cool too - PERFECT!!

The first two packs were beautiful! I was doing huge, sweeping circles out to a 100' out, got tons of altitude (up to maybe a 80 feet!), got LOTS of speed runs!! It was FREAKING GREAT!!!

Got LOTS of pretty passes right in front of me, too! So totally cool! Lots of pretty, totally controlled and coordinated turns!

So hey!! I broke my first rotor blade but man, I have made HUGE progress!! I was having a super ultra BLAST!!!

I checked carefully for any other damage - can't find any. I will happily pick up another set of blades today!