Yes agree with above reponse -all normal for an MSR,

Also youmay notice when you look at the hel from directly behind (at eye level) that the main shaft leans slightly to the left, its part of it's design to counter normal sideways movement but it means that it turns to the right aremuch easier than to the left.

And yes it is better to fly it with a DX6i, you can bind it easily, but one trick, because of it's electronic setup it is better to select plane mode and not heli mode in DX6i (it says this in the manual). However,having said that, Ihave flown it in both modes on the DX6i and in heli mode played around with some of thesettings, you can make it like an mcx or like an msr on steriods, but without doing anything but selecting plane mode and binding it, the msr will fly better on the DX6i.