That's cool.... Your instructor is giving you good advise. When you're learning you don't want a bunch of other things (switches to monkey with, etc...) distracting you. You'll find the time and place to use all those fancy switches when you're comfortable just flying and landing... not to mention the fact that expo and dual rates are pretty much useless on most trainers anyway.


I do have a friend that does fly in the dark with a chopper... pretty neat to watch.