ORIGINAL: rgburrill
This is one of the best reasons to belong to a club. Getting someone else to look over your setup is very, very important, especially for helis. Trying to learn how to fly with unkonown equipment is just asking for frustration.
I wish I had taken this advice when I tried to learn the heli.
I did belong to a club but we did not have a heli expert and I didn't go to the neighboring clubs that did.
Yeah...I am going it alone too. Setup is the most frustrating thing when starting out and you have no one to ask. I too, am the only one in our club that flies helicopters.