One thing that I have found out is that the Lama V4 is vesry very sensitive to the slightest imperfection to the blades. The tiniest of dings will effect it. I was making all sort of changes to the 4n1, swash linkage, and trims trying to get it to fly like it did on it's first flight. I finally changed all four blades and was confidently hoovering within inches of my face.

Speaking of blades, I tried a set of Venom blades. Boy, what a difference in durability! Esky blades are absolute garbage. The Venom blades took way more hits and way harder hits than the Esky blades before I finally totalled them when I tried to abort a landing on a raised platform. The heli caught the edge and tilted just before my throttle command took effect. Right into a wall it went...hard. My guess is this is what the Deal Extreme blades must be like (if not the very same/0.