Another tip: Go through Radd's school of rotary flight, it has helped me alot when it's coming to understand how the heli responds to the stick inputs. It took me around 2 weeks to go through it. Hopefully you have a lipo-battery when you're ready to lift of, I have a 2200mAh Lipo and it works great, about 20 mins of flight time.

BTW, you can search for radd's on google to find the page I'm talking about.