ManillaHeli,
Some good tips again! I can appreciate a good flying setup. My building skills are WAY ahead of my flying skills and I agree that a lower end bird with TOP quality avionics will fly great. Basically, that has been my approach lately as I am flying a Falcon SE V2 and Raptor 60 instead of a Fury, Vigor, Mille.

I am working on inverted hover/flight. While I can do it on the sim pretty well I am having a difficult time translating it to live action. I can fly forward inverted figure-8s on the sim but when I try basic inverted circuits at the field it is pretty ugly. I think it is MAINLY because of orientation constraints in SEEING the heli upside down. I am flying higher than I ususally do because of the new maneuvers so my vision is challenged. That and I don't have total authority in the side on/tail-in inverted hover. I can bring my nose-in inverted hover down pretty low if I want but I am still a little uneasy with it. I guess most of this I will adapt to just like all the other stuff that you go through learning. You know, where it seems sooooo hard and intimidating but once you overcome it you look back and think "geez, that was nothing compared to this....."