Warning

[Jamez]

Playing football in the park with your nephews seriously damages you flying ability. Don't be in goal or you will end up with a broken finger and won't be doing any flying for a couple of weeks. DOH, you have been warned.........

[Symon]

Nightmare!

Here's to a fast recovery :)

[Kwickkwack]

what a nightmare,
If you must play football, do what the "pros" do, learn to fall around in agony to gain sympathy, then get up and carry on as usual, your not supposed to actually hurt yourself.

Hope it heals quickly

[marktigere1]

Broke a thumb once and it hurts like ......... (insert own word)

Hope its better soon.

Cheers

Mark

[Jamez]

3 weeks, 3 WEEKS........oh my god its in an ali splint (but not a shiny blue upgrade splint....) and is being held at 50 degrees from my hand to let it heal in the right place. I can't even pick up the transmitter properly. Its not coming off for 3 #*&%'in weeks.

[trvo]

Here's your opportunity to invent a mind control heli...

Hope you get back in the air sooner!

Trev

[Raptorite]

I am really sorry to hear about your finger, what a right pain in the arse, I mean finger:p

I would stick to the fact that you wont be able to fly at least until the splint is off, dont ask me how I know:o oh go on then:rolleyes:

I was mounting a carbon battery tray extension plate onto one of my zooms a couple of years ago. Being clever, I thought I would secure the carbon plate to the frames with small M2 bolts. The logic behind this was that if I ever crashed the model and broke it, all I would need to do is unbolt it drill some holes in the replacement and bolt the new one back on.

I had drilled two of the four holes and had bolts in both of them keeping the carbon plate still whilst I drilled the third and fourth holes. The drill went through the plastic in no time as it is a soft material, but was a bit longer in getting through the carbon fibre. What I didnt realise until it was too late, was I was holding the model securely with my left hand, whilst drilling with my right, but I had inadvertantly placed my left index finger right were the hole was going to come out of the back of the carbon fibre.

I found this out rather abruptly, when the drill finally cut its way through the carbon fibre, it didnt stop there, as it went in through the front of my finger and out through the middle of my finger nail, OUCH:eek:

I wrapped it in a wadded bandage and sat quietly for an hour or so to try and let the pain subside a little, then a bright, or as it turned out not so bright idea hit me. I gingerly put a nut and bolt through the third hole I had just drilled and thought that will be good enough to get the model flying;)

I attached the battery and took the little zoom out into my back garden, now it's not the biggest garden in the world so I had to be a bit careful, especially with a damn great bandage thing on my left hand:rolleyes: I brought the model up into the hover, it felt smooth enough, but I was struggling with the pitch a little as my left hand wasnt comfortable on the transmitter.

Then it happened, I tried to squeeze my finger down in between the gyro and idle up switches to make my thumb and the rest of my hand a bit more comfortable, yeap, you guessed it, I knocked the idle up switch such as it was now in idle up 2:eek:

Well, the zoom with a 1500mah 11.1v Kokam li-po and a himax brushless motor is a bit of an animal, this thing climbed out at a phenominal rate bringing it down was another matter.:eek: I was really struggling with the pitch and by now my finger was hurting like hell again.:rolleyes: I did the best I could but inevitably the model came down with a hell of a bang, into next door's garden:eek:

So there is why you should wait at least until the splint is off before you fly a heli;)

Cheers,
Pete.