Frosty the beer man. cool nick name.. If your interested into getting into RC heli. The blade CP is not a bad little rig to cut your teeth on. Its complicated enough to learn just about every aspect of a collective pitch helicopter. Though indeed it does fly out of the box. As a new heli pilot ( reguardless of any heli you buy ) You have to take an extraordinary amount of time at first to understand whats goin on. You will wreck it. period.. eventually. but this is a good thing. Make sure you have plenty of support close by, or are good with waiting for stuff in the mail. Though how much you wreck it is the part you concentrate on. Fixed pitch machines are good trainers because they remove a mechanical aspect of it for you to soften the learning curve, are basically for indoor flying and no wind outdoors whatsoever(its almost impossible to get them out of the sky once you start venturing it beyond an arms length). You will progress eventually if you get into it. I call mine "crack-o-copters" and a fixed pitch machine has its limitations. I like the fact that I can go to my hobby shop and pick 5 or 6 dollar items up here and there and stock up the flight box. Simulators are cool for keeping the rust off your sticks though actually having one adds not only a value to what you keep aloft, you learn the mechanical aspect of it also.. which comes with the hobby. The Blade RC heli will do anything a plane will do after some minor modifications and understanding. All that and you dont need a runway!. I have Just as much fun with it at a park chasing sky, as I do from my driveway chasing cars.