I think that I can speak for everyone that has flown a blade to this date, if you have never learned to fly a heli before flying the blade you need some sort of help!!! That being said your help can be, TRAINING GEAR, SIMULATOR, ANOTHER PERSON THAT HAS FLOWN A HELI BEFORE!!! How do I know this you ask? I have never flown a heli before a month ago, I have flown airplanes for 18 years. I had flown on the G2 simulator for a years time on and off. I finally got my wife to let me have a heli, and what do i get, the worst possible heli to learn on that one can buy! Micro heli's are very unstable and hard to learn on, but it can be done! At this time I have about 30 flights on mine and am just learning to slow forward flight. I have had one bad crash where i have had to replace that main shaft and blades, but that is it. What I am trying to say is that if you go slow and use that right learning tools you should have a great time with this heli!!!! I must say that with all of the help here on this site you have a weath of knowledge to help you along the way. I would suggest that you read all of the forums and take to heart that if you try to forward fly this thing right off the bat you will have a 1000 doller ship if you have no previous training. hope this helps some and good luck, I love this thing but you have to go slow in order to love it in one piece.