Thats the one side story on mikrohelis. You forgott to mention the advantages, it costs next to nothing!, these light mikros wont be deamed junk if you crash one!,,or a 300+++ dollar rebuild!. You cant kill anyone with it in your newbie experience!, it can be flown indoors and it can be upgraded to handle outdoorflying in calm conditions! I would say if you are starting from zero this is the safest cheapest way start to flying helis. Ive seen my share of morons who just had to buy al the "good stuff" the old helipros at the field preached about for hours and hours only to end up with a machine so expencive that the thought of flying it is just to scary. Buy one of these little machines, crash it, give up, practice, run out of interest, wasnt for me or, fly like an ace indoors,whatever happens!!, anyway you look at it you have gotten a taste of flying a heli, know the stick operation and does and donts in flying a heli and it didnt cost you 1000-3000$. If you stuck with the program you know how to fly a heli and a big one is gonna be a smooth ride for you if you continue on the hobby.