To really piss somebody off because I'm pretty sure I'm being punished.
Yesterday, as I mentioned in another thread, I had a ball link pop off mid-flight on my N5c and down it came. What's amazing is that this is the second time I've had the N5c crash in a similar manner and it is so light, it just kind of floats down and doesn't break much.
Right after that I was flying my E5, which has only been back together less than a week, and on landing I had something really weird happen. I'll back up a bit because I've been having similar issues on landing for a while now and I kept thinking it was FBL controller related. When I land, I usually bring it into a hover at 4-5 feet off the ground and then hit throttle hold and land. Off and on, for the last couple of months, I've had this intermittent issue where as soon as I hit throttle hold something happens and the FBL controller browns out and resets. This usually results in a less than gentle landing. Yesterday on my E5, instead of the controller resetting, the helicopter slammed straight into the ground at full negative collective the instant I hit throttle hold. I sent the log file to Skookum support and Art confirmed that as soon as I hit TH, the SK540 saw "the pilot" input full negative collective, full elevator, and full rudder. It was only about 4 feet off the ground but it hit so hard, it broke the frame at the back, near the landing gear mount. It also destroyed the main and tail blades, head axle, tail fin, and I'm not sure what else because I haven't even wanted to look at it yet.
This has happened on all three of my helicopters with five different FBL controllers now and I'm thinking it must be my transmitter causing it. I don't know what I'm going to do, for sure. Sorry for another long rant but I had to vent.