Absolutely, I've been having fun the whole time. I just don't want the readers of this forum (neubs) to think that the upgrades are critical to making the bcp fly good.

Everything I've done to my current blade has been to make it as indestructable as possible while retaining as much manuverability as I can.

Brushless main and tail ensures longevity of the motors....I don't even think about them anymore let alone worry. The GY250 was simply to get the brushless tail to work its best.

heavy duty frame and landing gear (super landing gear from Helidirect) with almost 200 hours of flying and several HARD crashes and a multitude of hard landings without any breakage

Esky bell hiller head w/reinforced ball links (never break now) to get proper cyclic response plus lightened CF paddles to enhance the same.

Microheli spendle....no more bent spendles....75 hours old...several hard landings including 4 boom strikes.

Eflite CF blades.....lots of crashes....9 boom stikes....still ballanced/tracking/sounding sweet.

Its my trainer and my sons trainer...and my after work tooling around the back yard heli. I love every minute and feel completely at ease about spending the money to get it where it is. It was not my first heli though. I first learned heli setup on a walkera 22A (true hell) and then a Hornet II (ended up full Duzi upgrades). I then got a shogun V1 and upgraded it with all the microheli, heliup goodies. I've been flying this bcp now since June of last year. I now have three fully blinged shoguns, one w/microheli shaft drive, one w/microheli belt drive and one w/hubdave belt drive. I just wish I was as good a heli pilot as I am a heli mechanic. Flying those $1200 - 1600 shoguns would be allot more fun and less nerve shredding if I had put more time/batteries through that OEM BCP...... after of course going seperates, adding brushless motors, changing out the head to BH, upgrading the........

Hello everyone, My name is Futura and I'm an RC heli upgrade addict!

Putting CNC goodies on an elcheapo RTF heli causes two main problems for someone who is in the early stages of the learning curve....one, the increase in complexity keeps the heli on the bench longer due to setup issues....two, the money invested adds fear/nervousness and retards the progress through the learning curve.

If you can't do every move in radds rotary school of flight (basic flat patterns), smoothly and in a relaxed state....

I'm done....off the soap box. Sorry if my points have been anoying!!