Crappy Week Ending With a Submarine

So I just had a super crappy weekend. The machinery I run at work broke down on Friday and after a call to the field mechanic he made the 2 hour drive out only to bring the wrong parts. So we lost a whole stressful day of production. Then on Saturday while driving home a girl who was probably texting or something while driving crashed into the back of my truck while I was sitting in traffic. No screeching brakes to warn me to brace for it. Just full on 20+ MPH impact. Wrenched my neck and bounced my brain off the inside of my skull. So the reason for posting this in the heli section, I waited all morning for it to warm up and headed down to the old mill site for some flying. I put the first battery in and took off, flew great for one minute and thirty seconds. Then I realized that the motor was shutting down and losing lift. Then total shut down and falling. By now I was close to the ground and in my only second emergency autorotation ever. I was doing ok but fighting the wind. When I was 20 feet up I saw that I was headed for the only damn mud puddle in the whole place! Then I panicked and tried to fly out of it. No luck, I managed to stall the blades 5 feet up and it plummeted into about 8 inches of water and sank out of sight. I ran in with my nice shoes on into the red clay sloppy mud hole and fished it out. Doing a battery test one of the three cells has died ending up with only about 11.2 volts or so available to fly with.

Wow - Sorry Tyson!  Sounds like one of those days where you need to find a safe cave, crawl inside, curl up in a ball, and wait for tomorrow. 

Sorry to to read that PP. 
Any thing left of the electrical gear?

Sorry to read about your weekend.  It went from bad to worse.  How are you?  I hope your head and neck are ok.
Have you determined the damage to your truck or your helicopter? 

Looks like things might not be so bad, the truck has a bent rear bumper is all, the girls car is probably totaled, her front bumper tore off, the hood wrinkled to the windshield and the radiator was wrapped around the engine. I took the heli in and wiped the mud off, then took the air compressor to it at 100 PSI and blew the water out of everything, then let it sit and dry. It seems to fly OK, even the co pilot still works. Since I had the blades stall when I was trying to avoid the water it just knocked some ball links off, didn't break anything at all.

Other than a constant headache for three days I should be ok, and the parts guy showed up today and got another 600 PSI flowing to the head of our machine, so even that is working pretty good now......

Sounds to me like you're not very good at crashing.  You need to get a little more practice.

...Tiger

With summer coming on I will get lots of practice at that.......

Speaking of crashing... Are you going to be at the indoor fly tomorrow night?

...Tiger

Oh is that tonight already? Yeah i will probably be there.