DJDAZ
Veteran
Location: Perth Western Australia
| Went out with a flying friend for the first flight with my Raven since the massive $700 rebuild from an unexplained glitch and chicken dance. So a lot of new parts on board!
Hovered a tank and trimmed her up then checked her over, all fine, let's go fly!
Started off with another hover test and then some slow flying, working up to some figure 8's. Started giving it so some stick on the 8's and as i have flown past me and gone to turn right the heli has basically gone "mind of it's own" mid corner and all I had time for (which i didn't have time for last major crash) was to hit throttle hold.
Bad crash? Well any crash sux but my saviour was that it was caught by a small tree/bush! My buddy and I had to wrestle a few branches to free it but boy was I lucky (as lucky could really be). It's the smaller tree behind to the right of the big tree in the photo.
Looking at about $200, mainly because of blades. Only suspect parts were that the boom had come loose and a link was missing but don't know if either was caused by the crash or caused the crash.
Confidence and heli takes another battering 
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