Blade CX2 Crash - loss of signal??

[sky1trek]

Hi Folks,

Okay, been flying this for a couple months and really enjoying it. Only a few chipped blades ... till now.

Was enjoying some nice rolling turns at the park when I chose to take it up to a higher altitude. It was about 350 to 400 ft up and 500 to 600 ft downrange when the motors stopped! Of course it dropped like a rock and didn't show any power recovery all the way down. When I approached it I checked the controls and everything was functioning. Thinking back, the heli was tail in and my tranmitter (LPD5DSM - showing 5.6 volts) was pointing directly at it without the antenae cocked at any angle creating the lowest possible connectivity. Damage - outer shaft/ body demolished (probably took the shock for the rest of the bird). I'm thinking everything adds up to signal loss of some type and in the time between flight and ground wasn't long enough to re-arm the receiver.

Opinions/feed back welcome.

Does anyone know the range of the radio system or vulnerabilities??

Thanks.

[hawkman]

Probably, dont let it get too far from you. The cheaper radios are not very good at range.

If the Radio battery was a bit down then you could easily loose the signal...sounds like a fail safe or something cut in.

[sky1trek]

Hey hawkman, thanks for the info. I tend to agree ... went into fail safe.