'Sorry for your loss' rant

[Lynx.1677]

I think the 'shit happens' covers most crashes. It's a hobby afterall but it can be the financial implications that cause distress. Nothing quite like losing a loved one but I was a victim of financial..........crisis due to my obsession with heli's. Each crash saw me have to repair as I just couldn't 'not' repair it.

£14k later, I'm still broke but lesson learnt. Now I just have a 450! Lol.

[debrooker]

no need for sympathy when your a dumb ass:-

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WVjt63xMSQ]YouTube - A Britney moment[/ame]

[brin]

That's true none of us like smashing our pride & joy into the ground but it is a small perk if someone catches the moment for posterity

My most expensive smash was a 700E that went too close to a Mobile Phone mast, it went in at full speed nose first and dident survive, if you watch the vid you can hear my opinion at the very end

YouTube - Trex 700 Goes In .avi

Hey you gotta laugh

holy s**t that was self destruct big time.think i would've cut the mast down after that

[JohnJ]

holy s**t that was self destruct big time.think i would've cut the mast down after that

Ha Ha - You know in those few seconds when it went loopy all I could think of was my 700 ending up buried in some multi million pound communications dish and me trying to figure out how to get it down without being seen

As I've said previously, No One Hurt & Another Lesson Learnt "The Hard Way"!

[mgjackson]

When I planted my 600LE I had such a good day that I didn't really care - I knew I had been pushing the envelope and eventually dumb-thumbed it into the ground.

But, sometimes a sympathetic thread is also what you need - Share the pain a bit help keep perspective.

Next day you cheer up and you can either order lots of new bits online, then its a kid at christmas waiting for the postie to arrive, or you can go to your local model emporium and tell them of your spectacular crash and they've at least got to pretend to be interested because you're about to spend 200 quid :-)

[Mart61]

We all crash at some time, i'am always there with the camera.
This is last sundays crash Matt Long was the pilot, lol





Not to spectaculer but still a crash.
Del

I'm sorry for your loss...

[moonhobby.com]

there are crashes everyday, however people learn from them, just don't make it too costly

[scallybert]

He won this in the raffle at 3D Champs.

He wasn't wholly impressed when I expressed my approval (genuine, actually...) that he'd switched to a real man's heli (450) from the 700.

Something about me looking like a psycho with the G5s in cases, but he'd have to mince around carrying the 450 from the car park. I was a little confused, but he was very convincing mincing...

[gazza131]

i to vspent more time looking at his avatar than post lol

[mgjackson]

i to vspent more time looking at his avatar than post lol

And with your avatar, I guess you probably did