It's all fun until someone loses a TREX

Just moments ago, while hovering in the front yard I had what I think can be fairly described as my first serious heli smash.

It didn't seem like a big impact, but it sure has done some damage.

I'll let the photos speak for themselves.

I'm pretty cool about the whole thing.

As always seems to be the way, I was having a pretty good flight, I'd done a pirouette, tried a nose in hover (shortly before flicking her back to nose out before I lost her) and was happily flying around 1.5-2.5 metres.

As I was thinking about finishing up the battery at about 2.5 meteres she took a hit that brought the tail round and started going to her right - definitely not a control input (perhaps the gyro just gave up for a moment). I didn't think I could get her back (a tree was getting very close), closed the throttle and hoped for the best - looks like I could have saved myself the effort.

Oh well - repairing helis is part of flying them.