the heli should drift to the left on take off, i learnt on a bcp, adn i'm doing basic ff, no nose in yet. the more you take off, the better you'll get at compensating the drift at take off, until it's second to nature. once in the air, if you look closely, the heli will lean to the right abit when it's in a hover. this is also due to the tail pushing it to the left, you'll still have to compensate it but you wont notice it because you're doing all other compensation of cyclic and rudder and throttle etc.

a while bak in this tread somebody mentioned radd's school of rotary flights, that's a good site but dont expect your bcpp to be trimmed so you can hover hands off for few seconds or more. if it's extremely trimmed, i'll say no more than 5 sec hands off. so you'll always need to compensate. even though it's extremely important to trim the heli good, a bcpp will never fly like those big birds/dual rotor helis.

with all that being said, the bcpp can be learnt on but i'd advise you to get the flat bottom blades until your comfortable hovering at least, adn get some training gears, the gears will slow down your heli making it more stable. but vibrations will be more noticable with it, so once you can hover a pack tail in, take it off, you'll love the feeling. also, the bell hiller on the bcpp will make learning harder in my opinion, some would say easier. put on the training gears adn go to a large area, lift the heli up only a few cm so that teh gear does come off the ground but not high. i found it impossible to learn on the ground since it needs a whole lot more of cyclic control than in the air which is not very useful. let teh heli drift and then lower the throttle, then the next time, try to compensate it, if you freak out, just drop the throttle, a few cm off the ground wont hurt you.

teh bcpp is by no mean a beginner heli and definitly not a first timer. it can be learnt on adn once you get comfortable flying it, you can basically fly anything there is.