Oh no, it's broken, Good news, time to find another..
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Beautiful sunny calm autumns day so went out to fly my electric helicopter. Got up to a good height before the gears decided to strip themselves. Hello gravity.. To many broken parts to bother repairing, so I'll just have to look for a replacement, Oh what a shame :) , Maybe a drone, maybe a helicopter, decisions, decisions, decisions.... :) :) :)
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Beautiful sunny calm autumns day so went out to fly my electric helicopter. Got up to a good height before the gears decided to strip themselves. Hello gravity.. To many broken parts to bother repairing, so I'll just have to look for a replacement, Oh what a shame :) , Maybe a drone, maybe a helicopter, decisions, decisions, decisions.... :) :) :)
Sorry to hear that, at least it was not your fault. Why did you not cut the motor and try to land with autorotation? What model and size was your old heli? The list of replacement parts after a crash always is long, but I would not give up so easily. Unless it's completely destroyed, repairing costs less than a new heli. Anyway, don't get a multicopter. Why let a microcontroller have all the fun by flying for you? And of all reasons to crash, having found a bug in the controller's firmware is absolutely the dumbest one. How about a T-Rex 550L or a T-Rex 550X? I have an old T-Rex 550E which is around 10 years old and I have been flying it for more than two years without any incident or needing any repairs. Just don't try to get a clone. A clone may look like the real thing and cost a lot less, but a cheap chinese imitation of a chinese product is just asking for trouble. :-)
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Sorry to hear that, at least it was not your fault. Why did you not cut the motor and try to land with autorotation? What model and size was your old heli? The list of replacement parts after a crash always is long, but I would not give up so easily. Unless it's completely destroyed, repairing costs less than a new heli. Anyway, don't get a multicopter. Why let a microcontroller have all the fun by flying for you? And of all reasons to crash, having found a bug in the controller's firmware is absolutely the dumbest one. How about a T-Rex 550L or a T-Rex 550X? I have an old T-Rex 550E which is around 10 years old and I have been flying it for more than two years without any incident or needing any repairs. Just don't try to get a clone. A clone may look like the real thing and cost a lot less, but a cheap chinese imitation of a chinese product is just asking for trouble. :-)
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.CDP1802 wrote:
least it was not your fault.
That's definitely not the normal. :laugh: I'm from a plane background but for a number of reasons I'm flagged them for helicopters (mainly air space reasons) When I bought my last one I was considering a T Rex but thought it would be too tricky for me to fly, so I got a cheap Chinese thing as a half way step. But it didn't really live up to expectation in the maneuverability department. Now that it's broken ( and the missus saw the mishap and said that looks terminal and needs replacing - who am I to argue :-\ ) it's time to get something new. I agree about the drones being too automated.which is why I haven't got one to date, but they may have benefits in other areas. I notice the TRex or Align stuff comes in various sizes, what are the smaller ones like. Presently I live in the country and can just go outside to fly but we are considering moving into town with less space, now that the kids are grown up. I like to be able to fly without having to go somewhere to do it. (Particularly with short battery life while flying)