Wow, harder than I thought on the sim! I managed to get two USB joysticks working at the same time on FMS. Kind of like having a real big radio with two giant sticks. Sorry for such a stupid question, but if pitch is controlled with the throttle axis, how do you control throttle? Do you pretty much just put some negative pitch and then flip a switch and throttle up the motor to a set speed and then flip a switch and leave the throttle set there for most or all of the flight so that all you control in flight is pitch and tail with the left stick?

Second question is that I tried the Huges, ThreeDee and HawkII helicopters in the sim. The HawkII was rather docile and relatively not that hard to fly. The tail would pretty much follow the helicopter where little if any tail control was needed in flight. The HawkII seemed a bit more maneuverable and harder to hover compared to the Huges. And finally the ThreeDee was a handful to fly as I had to fly the tail and ended up crashing a lot more given my total skill level of about 40 minutes total sim flight time. So my question is, which of these closest resembles the flight characteristics of the Blade CP?

Going to do A LOT of flying on this sim as just in the 30-40 minutes I've made a lot of improvement but I still am crashing a lot. I can see where you would spend a little fortune in parts and blades to try to fly one of these with no sim time to learn to avoid stupid mistakes and get your orientation down.