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Why do we still learn the hard way....?
Okay here's the long and short of it, last night was finishing up trying to trim out my Twister Skylift, had brought it down to the living room instead of doing upstairs as had more room. So decided to use the kitchen to just run it up and see if it was getting straighter. It was crossing the floor quite rapidly so I thought instead I'd take it back up to what is now my flying room, more space. Going through the front room I noticed something on telly, which suddenly lost signal, of course it would, my TX is still turned on, by now I'd put my Skylift on the table to stop and see whatever it was.
without thinking and because it was interfering with the telly I knocked my tx off, BIG MISTAKE, I'd forgotten the heli was still powered up, it promptly lauched into the air like a whirling dervish straight at my mother, minding her own business in her chair. Luckily she has pretty quick reactions for an 84 year old and got her arms up and pushed my heli away, gaining only a slight cut on the forhead. My heli crashed and lay on the floor with the blades still trying hard to spin. I stopped my mom who was also trying to get to it to try and save it bless her, and got the battery unplugged.
Thankfully nothing serious this time, but a clean pair of trousers and hands shaking so badly I dropped 2 screws trying to replace the blades, 7 of them broke, also bent the flybar.
Take a tip any beginners, it says turn the TX off last for a damn good reason, my Blade CX2 could get away with it, she shuts throttle off if she loses TX, and she's on the 2.4 Ghz band. Unfortunately Skylift is 35Mhz, which readily locks on to the next best signal instead, in this case I'm guessing the interference came from the telly signal.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, please let my mistake be a lesson to any newbie that has a heli. I was lucky this time, it could've been so much worse. I won't have the thing downstairs anymore, until I make sure that turning the TX off last is a force of habit, and not something I have to consciously think about.
without thinking and because it was interfering with the telly I knocked my tx off, BIG MISTAKE, I'd forgotten the heli was still powered up, it promptly lauched into the air like a whirling dervish straight at my mother, minding her own business in her chair. Luckily she has pretty quick reactions for an 84 year old and got her arms up and pushed my heli away, gaining only a slight cut on the forhead. My heli crashed and lay on the floor with the blades still trying hard to spin. I stopped my mom who was also trying to get to it to try and save it bless her, and got the battery unplugged.
Thankfully nothing serious this time, but a clean pair of trousers and hands shaking so badly I dropped 2 screws trying to replace the blades, 7 of them broke, also bent the flybar.
Take a tip any beginners, it says turn the TX off last for a damn good reason, my Blade CX2 could get away with it, she shuts throttle off if she loses TX, and she's on the 2.4 Ghz band. Unfortunately Skylift is 35Mhz, which readily locks on to the next best signal instead, in this case I'm guessing the interference came from the telly signal.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, please let my mistake be a lesson to any newbie that has a heli. I was lucky this time, it could've been so much worse. I won't have the thing downstairs anymore, until I make sure that turning the TX off last is a force of habit, and not something I have to consciously think about.
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