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ORIGINAL: rem0.061

Buying a heli to learn on for less than $150 is not the best Idea. You will most likely need to keep replacing parts. The best thing to do is get the Phoenix flight simulator from Horizon Hobby. It is less than $200 and you can learn how to fly ,then improve your skills before flying the real thing with out paying a penny more. It is the most realistic flight simulator, in my opinion, and I would recommend getting it with a blade msr or 120 if you want a little real life hover training with the sim.

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ORIGINAL: TakeshiSkunk

If you're serious about learning and would like to be flying 6ch helis eventually, start with either Phoenix or Realflight and an mCPx or Nano CPx. It cannot be stressed near enough that a simulator is far and away the single most valuable purchase you can make flying helicopters. Anybody that insists on learning without a simulator is straight up crippling themselves.

mCX and mSR are fine for fooling around indoors and putting around the back yard, if you don't want to take the hobby any further than that you'll be happy with either one of those. The mCX by all accounts flies itself, your control inputs do nothing more than slightly disrupt its inherent stability so it can creep around, you won't be able to fly it in even the slightest bit of wind. The mSR is a lot more maneuverable and will require minor corrections to maintain a hover, it can get going pretty fast. It's difficult to maintain forward flight in a small space with it due to it having very weird handling quirks when turning, however.

Don't buy one of them expecting to pick up transferable experience or as a stepping stone in the 6ch learning process, they tend to teach bad habits and allow you to rely on crutches that don't exist with a 6ch. The only thing that will teach you how to fly 6ch helis is stick time on a sim or a real model.