I have to agree paying for the basic tools needed at the very least is the smart thing to do. I spent the first year of the RC airplane hobby jerry-rigging repairs and using the wrong tools for the job. Luckily I knew what I was doing and knew that my frustation would end when I did things the right way, so I stayed in the hobby.
Now I fly correctly with the right tools and it has been a very satisfying hobby.... and in some cases CHEAPER.
Helicopters are precision machines that defy physics, and take an extrodinary amount of time(money) to master and maintain. That is the real truth of it, and it will not change.
I really have to disagree with the defy physics statement. I know what your getting at but one of my pet peves is when someone deems something amaizing to be magical, for example... Men in space, how a PC work, and the internet. I think that letting things be magical leads to bad things, like the darkage and people getting burned alive by the church for talking about little green men. I'm the type of guy that likes to know HOW things work.
Keeps the brain busy. :stupid: