Since I keep bragging about me not going to crash once I get my first heli, I was wondering about you guys. How were your first timers ? So did you crash or not ?

Also for the people who want to do more then voting, also answer the following 3 quetsions: (don't answer if you have never crashed.)
1) What happend ? (How did it crash, your mistake, engine failure, ...)
2) What got destroyed ?
3) How many times in total have you crashed ?

I had to go with none...ever[X(] I have ben flying helis for 5 years, and in those 5 I have never driven one in due to pilot error, although I have had 3 due to mechanical falure nothing big though. I would much rather drive one in from dumb thumbs over a falire though......just have to wait until it happens, because it WILL happen Hopfully not any time soon.

Colin

I voted the "No, never and I am already flying for a while now" just because I have not yet crashed. Tho I've only been flying for a week and a half, I have burned 2 gallons already. Hovering, forward flight, forward flight rolls, stall turns, sidways flight, sideways flight rolls, and autorotations.

Loving my 30 v2.

I crashed on my first flight off of the Whitman Training Stand. Got too high in the hover and went in on my side but fixed it that day and flew the next day. Probably my worst crash was loosing rotor head in flight on Concept 60 or maybe it was flipping my XL inverted at low altitude but forgot to go idel up.[&o]

That idle up got me twice. i was using a JR x378 TX, youy have to reach over a couple switches to get to the mode switch, after the second time, i got a JR 6102, the mode switch is right where it should be, hopefully it will not happen again.

In the early years of learning to fly my schluter Helistar i crashed every weekend. fly it on saturday... crash it on saturday. fix sat night and crash on sunday. this went on for too long..... I am still crashing now but this time it is all brain farts

The differance now is the quality of my crashes...... they are fun to watch

Everyone crashed regardless if they admit to it or not they have crashed!

my first crash was going to full throttle and hitting a chain link fence
the second was hitting a tree, so on and so on

first crash cost me around 100.00 to repair

total crashes to date i bet you would love to know all i can say is that the number is in the three digit range


Alan...

ok, we have a winner

I crashed on my 3rd flight because i got to balsly and it got away from me, my inexperience did nothing for giving the right commands to save it. LOL Was fine after that for a while. Crashed once more starting forward flight.
When i started doing 3D maneuvers i crashed 8 times. Since then i have not crashed in the last year and a half. Mostly broke boom, tail pitch slider, bent flybar, broke main blades, and replaced frame 3 times on my first [raptor. <---- What a cheap heli. All miniature Aircraft now had to wait till i didnt crash so much they are expensive to fix.

I didn't put a vote in, but I learned helis on a heli boy about 23 years ago. I did it long before sims or computer radios. I never crashed till I started doing aerobatics. Had a part come off and go through wood blades. Huge ball of balsa in the air. It didn't fly well after that. Didn't crash for years after that, but didn't fly much. Then had a bunch of kids running toward my superior in a park one time. Tipped it up and closed the throttle. I wanted the blades to stop fast and that was the best way to do it. I didn't see them in time and they were too close to try to let the blades slow on their own. Over the years I have only had 4 other heli crashes that I can think of. An Xcell that did a figure 9 into the ground, started a loop too low, a raptor 30 that lost power in a loop too low to do anything, and the raptor 60 twice stripped all the main servos doing 3D and got down, but not pretty. Now I use metal gears. Never had that problem again.

Great move with the kids. I had to do that for my dog once. My wife opened the door and he came bolting for it and seen him to late too. Don;t know if I was upset over the heli being crashed or not saving and taking otu the dog. Just kidding that dog is one of my Kids. LOL