Oh my God what have I got myself into here. You need a degree in rocket science to do this hobby! I think I'll go back to cars, two sticks, no mixing, spooling or throttle reversing to worry about.

I've bought the receiver already. Its the same as the one in the pic up there. I'm going to buy a 6XHs or FF6 transmitter now. I think the 6XHs is a souped up version of the FF6/6XH. I think it has an exponential function which might be useful too, so maybe I need the newer transmitter rather than the older FF6. But I'm not 100% sure on that. Maybe they all have exponential controls. I won't be using the Walkera transmitter, I think thats a toy, a toy for boys. I think if you seriously want to fly a helicopter you have to have a good radio. I think you can fly a crap heli with a good radio but you will never fly a good heli with a crap radio. So in the interests of making life easier a good radio will do just that. Theres so much to learn though, its daunting! I'm scared. Come on fellas, I need input here. Read this and chip in with whatever you feel will be useful info for me. It's all good stuff. Cheers. Oh and the names Paul, I was gonna be budgie, but budgie was already taken, so I had to be his mate instead