Crashed due to utter stupidity!

[EtheAv8r]

Leaving your lipos fully charged for a week isn't bad in my opinion

It is if they are fully charged, and the temperature may drop significanly whilst they are in storage to that temperatire at which they were originally charged.

[Heli-Bren]

I once put crappy £1 batteries in the tx of my mini-pred. . .
well the patio umbrella came out unscathed !
lesson learned !

[Brian Gifford]

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's X Rachel

You & me both, Rachel.

Edmund, sorry to read about that. I've not done that particular trick, but I have done some equally stupid tricks. Hope you get it flying soon.

[blackbrabus]

well the patio umbrella came out unscathed !
lesson learned !

Great now I have to explain why I just burst out laughing at work.
funniest thing I have read for a while

[Mikej]

Edmund,

I've done similar - TX battery alarm went off when I was doing a set-up hover after a repair, I thought "I'll be fine for a minute to finish setting up", Tx shut down 40 seconds later leaving the heli to crash - another repair / set-up needed .

Add to that trying to fly with the wrong model set in my pre model-match days on a Futaba, lift off, tip over, walk of shame, collect pieces, go home

[EtheAv8r]

Bit of an update. Stupidity costs more than I expected!!!!!!!

I did not get round to fixing the G5 until yesterday, because I have been fully occupied with other projects, and in fact have not flown an R/C helicopter since my little incident. However yesterday I had a couple of flights with the 250 and was pretty pants…. The near 2 month break in flying really showed.

So I decided to fix the G5 – it was only the gentlest of crashes, effectively a fail-safe self auto from about 6 or 7 feet, and would be a quick and cheap fix.

I cannot believe the damage – much more than some previous quite major prangs!

Set of Radix carbon blades
Flybar-rod
Tail boom (only very slightly bent)
Main shaft
Two HS-5056 MG’s destroyed – one went up in smoke when I powered on, the other has smashed gears.

I had 3 new HS-65HBs in the cupboard that I got for the 250, but ended up putting HS-65MGs in it instead, so I have replaced the 3 HS-5056 MGs in the G5 with the 3 HS-65HBs and it will be interesting to see how they, and I fair. The are almost ½ the price, so it will be interesting…..

I also put on a pair of the standard G5 glass fibre main blades from one of the un-built G5 kits I have.

I want to see if I notice the effect of the cheaper kit at my basic level.