Come now, don't give Dave all the credit! I was encouraging you too. Regardless, I don't know that it's our fault you forgot to give positive pitch

Eh, looks better than my first crash... I was working on inverted hovering in Idle 2 when I lost my orientation. I pulled hard back on the cyclic without minding my pitch and drove the whole thing in hard at 2600 RPM's. It was about 4 more seconds before I realized why the throttle wouldn't kill when I hit down the stick

Like my buddy says: "If you're not crashing, you're not pushing hard enough". I am sorry to hear it happened, however. I was hoping you'd come back telling us it was such a marvelous and uplifting affair that has changed you forever. The good news is that you now know your heli is capable of it! Now you just have to get there as well.

There's a famous quote (I can't recall the name) that says something to the effect of, "We all fall down, but it's whether or not we pick ourselves up that determines our character".

On an aside, I would highly recommend Gorilla Gear and the carbon fiber tail boom now that you have an opportunity to do some upgrading!

Good luck!
- Chaz