A hard landing could very well strip the gears, just depends on how hard, and how fast you cut the power to the motor. For starting out dont use Idle up mode sometimes called stunt mode. In this modedropingthe left stick dose not shut down the motor but actually introduces neg. pitch and applys full power to the motor if you did this in a crash you wouldsurelybreak something. Sountilyou get used to it and are ready for some inverted flight dont use idle up or 3d mode. It will take some work to break the badhabityou learned with the msr of just dumping the left stick when it gets away from you. With a CP heli you need to do just theopposite and apply more left stick gain some altitude and gather things up rather than just let it crash. there is alot more power involved here, as well as a much higher rotor speed and alot more rotor head parts. I have had a semi hard landing wiht my 125 and it did not cause any major damage just chipped the blades a bit. but upon impact i had already sut off all power to the motor. If i hadent the gears would strip. On a good note though, heli max includes an extra set of main blades, tail blades, and tail gears right in the box. the best advice i can give you is the first time you wand to go intoforwardflight get to a very open area with nice soft grass, a good smooth place to take off and land, and nothing to run into(accept the ground). And maybee buy some training gear also it can really help get the feel for things and save you some money on blades and gears while you are getting started.


As far as im concerned right now Heli-Max product support is second to none. I am still waiting for a problem with Eflite to be resolved with my Blade SR, thats going on 3 weeks now. And for Heli-Max to do tis for me so fast really impress me, enough to make me go with the Axe 400 as my next bird.<br type="_moz" />