wthford
Veteran
Location: Monticello, Illinois
My Posts This: Topic Forum | GMP Competitor 60Got one of these about 13 years ago. Had been flying about 6 years at the time. Took it home and spent all that evening setting it up. Got the radio and everything setup, and everything seemed to be working just fine. Next day was picture perfect (go figure), so off I go to the local school grounds (nice big open area). started up very easily and sounded great. Let it warm up for a minute and started to run it up. Checked the tail response and it seemed good. I was using an old JR Circus 6 transmitter at the time. If you've seen it you'll know that it had servo reversing switches on the front of it, barely recessed. Anyway, everything seems ok, so I bring it up to about 1/2 throttle and it does not seem light on the skids... ??? So, I give it a little more throttle/collective. Nothing. So, I decide to throttle it down and check it out. I bring the stick down and WHAM... collective has gotten reversed. :| It takes off, at the same time, it's idling down... I lose control of it, and it comes right at me. It struck me in the foot with those huge wooden blades. I had tennis shoes on. I'll never forget how bad that hurt. I looked down, and the shoe was fine. Inside my shoe, my big toe was slashed wide open. Basically, it exploded from the force. But, believe it or not, the heli was not damaged (that I could see). I was determined to see that thing hover, and I did. I flipped the switch, checked it over, and hovered out a tank. Then I went to the hospital for stitches. Needless to say... I'm a little more careful in setup and checking things over before flying now.
That friggin hurt. Simple switch setting. Taught me a lesson. |
now i have that image stuck in my head. should have a GORE WARNING PLEASE...
I think Phoenix RC crashes if you fly it into your virtual self 
