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08-09-2017, 07:18 PM | #21 (permalink) |
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Join Date: Oct 2015
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I "landed" mine in the middle of a 4 lane road several hundred yards away. It had gotten out of control sight, so hit Rescue and TH. Drove to the area, was walking the road.... when a woman stopped and gave me my 230s. 10 minutes later I was back in the air!
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08-10-2017, 05:20 AM | #22 (permalink) |
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Join Date: Dec 2016
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Wow! Good story, that is some luck. Glad to hear it was all good.
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04-19-2018, 08:53 AM | #23 (permalink) |
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I had a similar experience to all...
Flying the school field by my house on a day that I knew was too windy but have had success with how stable this lil heli is. Well I'm flying down away from myself and get to the point where it is getting hard to see which direction my 230s is facing, about 150 yards away. I go into a right banking turn (my first mistake, should have gone left to go back over the field, rather than the houses and apt building on the right side). You all know where this is going... huge gust of wind comes and takes the heli further over the houses, I throttle up to get it higher and start trying to get it pointing back towards me and go nose slightly down... Well that doesn't work as the gust just keeps going taking it... and taking it... and I lose sight of it. I go looking for it, look through the parking lots of the apt buildings. Cant find it. I'm thinking "oh great... now I need to go buy a drone woth fpv and search the rooftops for it." Luckily on my last pass around the neighborhood, I pray that I can find it. I am going back towards my house and glance down the alleyway that the garbage trucks use to get behind the houses in the neighborhood and there it is smack dab in the middle of the alley! I was and still am so thankful for finding it. It was trashed though... CF frame partially smashed and unrepairable (I love my glue, tape, and thick paper fixes) but this wouldn't work as it was an entire side of the CF frame and any shock to the heli would cause the frame to "shift" and the main gear to slip on the motor pinion. So I had to make the decision to repair or replace my 230s. I chose to repair as I know I would be eventually repairing it anyway in order to get decent money on selling it in the future or whatever I chose to do with it. The AL swash broke in the crash as well. I have been trying to decide if I want to upgrade to a 360 CFX trio... I guess I split the difference and bought a 3 head rotor for my 230s. Waiting for that in the mail and reading up on adjustments I will have to make in my settings in the meantime. Anyone know or want to guess how I bent the rear of one of my blades so badly during the crash?? I'm thinking maybe telephone pole strike (lots of telephone poles around where it crash landed). But not sure how the damage was done on the non-front portion of the blade as when the heli is spinning the bent part would be on the trailing edge. |
04-19-2018, 09:40 AM | #24 (permalink) |
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Join Date: Feb 2015
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I remember those days like it was yesterday. When you are first learning, everything seems risky, so you take risks! Then sometime down the road, probably after you are tired of rebuilding and the crap that comes along with it (vibes!), you get to a point where you only execute moves you are 99.9% confident you will succeed at.
I still do risky stuff, but its on my sim and then on a V977! |
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