Well racin06, I was outside adjusting the gain and proportional and finally got it right. It would lift off fine and stay tail-in for a few seconds and then it would get a glitch or a gust of wind and away she'd go! The last time I impacted the ground the same thing broke that broke the last time I was down for two weeks. The little ball snapped off of the side of the fly paddle outer frame. And like a dummy I only ordered one of those because I thought it was a fluke. I also found another problem that was giving me fits. One of the links between the fly paddle frame and the swash plate kept jumping off toward the rotor shaft and making the controls sloppy. That may have been the glitch. Otherwise, it was flying pretty good compared to the last time I flew it. I have to say that thing is pretty tough. One of the crashes happened when I got it a little higher than I intended. As I was trying for a controlled crash it zinged off and hit a big oak tree. HARD!!! I heard it go THUNK and it hit the ground. No damage that time that I could see. But that may be what cracked that little ball and it held long enough for a few more flights (crashes). Heh.

One of the things I discovered out of adjustment while rebuilding my rotor was the flybar. When I broke the flybar several weeks ago I made one from one of the legs on my training gear and failed to get it exactly centered. It was only off by .2 mm but that was enough to make it fly crazy like it was. The more I work on this little devil, the more I begin to understand that 'good enough' ain't nowhere near good enough. If everything isn't just right, it's not going to fly right. DUH. I finally got the CG right but still have the same problem with the battery mount rods moving. The battery stays put but those rods just keep creeping forward. It might be time to order that bare bones HB FP and use the old one for spare parts. Decisions, decisions...