If there are quick release prop guards some leave the brackets and don't use the guards to add strength to avoid cracking.
That's what I did the first week I had mine. I'd already been reading here before I bought it and decided to do that asap.
I used the actual prop guards maybe twice and don't even know where they are at the moment but the mounts are still on my whirlybird... no cracks.
There do not point straight up. This is how it should be. Fly Be Free
What he said
