Jacob,
I hit the tailrotor on my boat trailer in the garage. It broke one blade off at the root. I didn't have another at the time, so I CA'd it back together and it has been working fine. Also, I have had quite a few boom strikes from cutting the throttle too quickly when landing. This breaks the fittings for the right hand brace on the boom. I have CA'd this back on several times. It also put a 1/4" crack in the main rotor, but did not break it. I CA'd that and the crack hasn't spread any further.

PreFlight also works with a PC joystick. I don't have an interface for my transmitter yet, and am using a logitec rumblepad. PreFlight is an order of magnitude more realistic for helis than FMS. I was flying FMS quit easily, but when I got PreFlight, even the training scenario which starts at 1/3 speed was harder than FMS. I couldn't recommend trying to fly the HB after just practicing on FMS.

Jeff