Hey restinpieces, I feel your pain old buddy. And my wire mod on the fly paddle frame really works like a charm. I must have crashed that little HB FP at least two dozen more times this evening after the repair. No slippage or sloppiness. No other parts popping off. No more breakages besides that dinky tail post/tail prop protector. Hot melt glue to the rescue!

I'm really amazed at how well that thing is holding up. Although, I think my tail rotor motor is going out. My gain is maxed out and my left rudder trim is firewalled about midway through the pack drain. But I actually had a 5 second sustained, mostly controlled hover at about 7 feet. But then of course I crashed . I also need to brag on myself a little about the crashing. I'm learning to do controlled crashes that cause no damage. I'm not sure how I'm doing it, but my hands just take over when my mind goes blank and it hits hard on the skids every time. Well, almost every time. I even got in some unexpected forward flight and a tight circle that I recovered from and actually landed without a crash. I almost crapped a golden egg I was so happy with myself!!! Imagine me taking off and actually landing instead of crashing... I'm starting to have some fun now. Let us know how your realflight sim training goes restinpieces. I've been thinking about that too. It's just more money, after all. Heh.