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Awesome video. 👍

Great Video, Thank You! Also, good advice about safety!

Wheres the link to #4 with the boom strike. Thats my old flying field

It hurts watching these crashes! Most of them seem to be very expensive!

#3 - boom strike my ass, love how people won't accept their own mistakes and try to blame something else.

Many boom strikes

Nice video ugly crashes my friend 🔵🔵🔵🙂🙂🙂👍👍👍🔵🔵🔵

I stay away from these.

2:46 -- this is absolutely a flybarless (sometimes called gyro, an old name) configuration failure. You can tell that's the issue because of the acceleration in the unwanted cyclic input, which is what happens when the FBL tries to correct a slight problem but gives input to make the problem worse and that problem repeats itself very quickly in realtime to that conclusion. This is the easiest thing to check and something you should do every day on the field, and three or four times with any new helicopter build. Turn your heli on without the motor on, and your transmitter doing nothing. Pick up your helicopter and give it movement that the transmitter isn't; the job of the FBL/gyro is to notice what the heli is doing that you aren't commanding and remove it. So whatever you do with it manually, you should see deflections in the opposite direction to cancel it out in the swashplate, and the tail rotor pitch. You should be mechanically smart and aware enough to visibly understand what are the correct deflections. If you don't, then you're not knowledgable enough to fly and operate such an RC helicopter safely by yourself. 4:52 -- lol that is not a boom strike. That is a pilot who isn't good enough to flip the helicopter back over. Stupid decision to fly it in a neighborhood and FAR FAR too stupid to go inverted. World class RC heli pilots wouldn't ever do more than a needed hover check (strict, tail-in position) in that kind of area. If you're someone who's only been exposed to these kind of RC helicopters in videos, understand that as soon as one of these things is near you in real life you can hear and feel how powerful, quick, and dangerous they are. Dangerously bad pilots stop respecting the damage the machine can cause because they feel they can control it. Smart RC pilots assume their failure, and ensure it's not going to happen anywhere to do worse damage to anything other than the helicopter and the ground. 5:35 -- this guy is extremely lucky and also reacted poorly. The #1 most critical safety feature of all people who fly these things is our "throttle cut" switch on the transmitter. The gist of it is, one of the "channels" sent by the transmitter/controller is actually a constant signal telling the helicopter to keep the blades spinning at a given RPM (say around 2000-4000 rpm depending on helicopter size). Throttle cut switch functions to override normal flying and set the motor to zero power, and we are absolutely, responsibly supposed to do this then when/if ever we lose control, and aren't instantly able to regain it. These things fly fast in whatever direction so a loss of control has a real risk of crashing into people or the helicopter entirely getting away from visibility. If you're freaking out, lose orientation -- don't try to regain control for moments while it has a real risk of harming people. At that point the only control you have is dropping it into the ground harmlessly. If you're worried about the cost and are putting people at risk for an unlikely chance to save your helicopter from hitting the ground, that means you can't afford the hobby, safely or otherwise. When you're playing competition style like that, you absolutely should be capable of seeing a tail strike on the ground, and even if you don't directly see it, you instantly recognize the response (uncontrolled yaw->spin) and know you aren't recovering it. The only thing to do then is hit throttle cut because you absolutely know you don't have control and this guy doesn't appear to hit that switch for 2 whole secons. That's far too slow. Cutting power to blades and being hit by them just 0.5 seconds later is a huge difference in reducing the damage. Enough to take a potentially lethal and absolutely certain ER visit, down to maybe not even an urgent care visit. I love this hobby, and too many people engage in it unsafely. What (somewhat) incidentally makes it safe is how expensive it is to not take seriously. Also it takes many hours and tools to build these things, and all helicopters over a certain size must be built unless you're buying used. Someone selling one used and already built wouldn't responsibility sell to someone who's saying "this is my first helicopter and I'm learning to fly" if they look like they might be a donkey and do something stupid. Even if you manage to put a flyably dangerous helicopter into the hands of someone who's about to be stupid with no ability, they are so difficult to control they will most certainly crash it within seconds or under a minute, and their lack of ability to diagnose, pay for replacement parts, and repair what they just broke will absolutely not be there. When I used to fly very small helicopters (Blade Nano, Blade mCPX BL) in a public park, the most common banter strangers would make with me is how they got something similar for Christmas one year, crashed it, and never touched it again. The irony is, they most certainly had a far easier helicopter that they couldn't control. I spent a week learning how to basic hover in a simulator, and a couple months learning outdoors on very small helicopters. All the while I was building a 450 sized helicopter with great care and patience. By the time I flew the big one, I was more than prepared and needed every bit of caution since I was doing it alone and not with a flying club. If you don't have that kind of patient temperament, join a club and absolutely find someone who knows what there is to know. You can learn and execute a bit faster, but don't try to do it solo for your first time.

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How it started off, kind of well, but ended in near complete disaster! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q7Fkpcmcz667hZ8.html