please don't hold this in your hand it's MUCH too easy to whack your self. now if you're careful you can hold it on the table instead and have a second person control the heli. This worked fine for me, or you can just weight the skids, one pound is plenty.

ahh, don't be scared to fly it! just take it slow, just flying 3in off the ground (training gear is good, especally if you legthen it to twice as long AFTER sticking a brushless motor on) then once you feel like you can keep it decently still move it up to one foot, and repeat until you're at 5 feet. Then practice walking it around the block. After that try side in then after that head in. After all this shorten the landing gear a tad and start at 5 feet and re do.