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Blade 300CFX Flight log 3/100 - Failures 1/100 - CRASH

So eventually the infamous first crash happened. To be fair I had flown once before this one and I was getting quite confident on understanding the dynamics of Heli. But the mistake that I made was that there was quite a bit of wind and I decided to do some circuits at quite high altitudes. The curse of over confidence and the urge of trying to do too much too quickly caught up with me. Anyway, the crash was more me loosing orientation and causing the Heli to land hard snapping the one of the landing gear.

From first inspection, it doesn't look like much else has been damaged especially the carbon fibre main blades with costs a pretty penny. But from what I could see, this Heli is incredibly responsive to radio inputs which makes me wonder that I might just numb down the rates curves a little more abit. Or perhaps just est some humble pie and keep clocking minutes the slow and almost boring way... Oh well, now it's a week waiting for new parts.

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