Taipan
Key Veteran
Location: Sydney, Australia
| As posted by a fellow Aussie from the local forums;
This is a picture of an injury I sustained whilst setting up my Trex 500. The purpose of posting this is just to re iterate what has been said a 1000 times over - Helis are not toys, they are dangerous and need to be handled very carefully. This was an accident, caused not by a mechanical failure, but by human error. I feel lucky to have escaped so lightly.
I am embarrassed to even say what happened, it was such a fundamental STUPID mistake. This was my very FIRST start on the heli, having never flown one before, and what an experience. In a nutshell, in all my wisdom, I switched the Tx off BEFORE disconnecting the battery to the heli - game over. So the heli spooled up on its own, I swithched the Tx on again - no response, and by now the heli was really picking up speed - in my garage. So my mate told me to give him the Tx whilst I held the tail down - which I did, but not tight enough - and suddenly the engine went up a notch, veered to the left and the rest as they say is history.
His failsafe might've not been set either.
After the op;
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