I've got one piece of bling....Eflite's CNC swash. The rest is to make it fly better. I hear you Mochaboy....and that's exactly the reason I went through my upgrades.

This thread is about practice making perfect. Once you learn to fly, you will find the stock bcp to be a great little flier without all the upgrades.

An observation on the sticky collective, After replacing many heads and going to the Esky cp2 bell hiller head....making sure the bearings/and washers were right on the blade grips etc....the collective still sticks once in a while when first starting up. I've gotten into the habit of spinning up the heli just to it getting light or half throttle...which ever comes first. I then move the swash around with the right stick and can visually see the collective "settle in" to where it should be. I then take off and fly with no issues.

A heading hold gyro is nice, but any piezo dual rate gyro will allow the tail to slip out with torque or collective changes unless you or the tx (revo) compensates.

the real proof is when you watch kyle....

http://www.raymondstacy.com/pics/bladecp.wmv
http://www.raymondstacy.com/pics/cppool.wmv

....[big sigh].....its not the heli, its been my thumbs the whole time!!!!