After my first day of testing, I can see the problem that a lot of people are having.

This light weight boat/plane is very high powered and you basically have to fly it across the ground.

It seems similar to putting a high powered engine on a bicycle that would allow you to easily go 100 miles per hour.  The problem is going to be safety, and the first time you crash you’re done for.

Day 2, the hydro has plenty of power, probably too much power for me right now.

There is a fine line between traveling along the ground and flying, basically any second you are moving you are running the risk that it will jump up in the air about 3 feet.

The first time that happened today I cut the power and did a nose dive into the ground, this broke the right sponson.

The second time it happened I was starting to make a turn, it hit a bump in the ground and jumped up about 3 feet and because I had the rudder slightly turned it rolled upside down before I could even do anything.

And what I did was cut the power to get it back on the ground, this brought it down hard on the left sponson and then it flipped and landed upside down.

The left sponson had major damage and the motor mount was broken in half.

So much for taking it easy and slowly learning where it is safe on the ground.

If it still runs I should be able to use enough glue and tape to get it running again.

But now I am thinking I would have been better off just taking off and trying to fly away from the ground.

Or at least I have learned that cutting the power when you’re up in the air does not really help you much at all.

And I don’t think you can run without slowing down quite a bit, because if you hit a bump on your turn and become airborne  then you don’t have enough time to correct from your turn.