Yeah, excess wind was bad with my electric heli. Once over the tree tops, the wind caught it and blew it away and out of transmitter range. Then it dropped like a rock and crashed into someone's roof blocks away. I went walking to a house where there was a lot of commotion with barking dogs figuring "This is the place." Owner handed it to me in pieces of dangling wires over the fence. Bounced off his roof and onto the pool deck's concrete and that was it.