Yes I have to agree with p01rogue, you see a key difference with the CP helicopters is they like to move in forward flight. this means that letting go of the sticks does squat, the helicopter will not autolevel before it hits the dirt or the nearby wall.

Flying the CP in a hover involves constantly tiny corrections. If your flying carbon fiber blades like I am it involves very rapid constant tiny corrections.

Add on the fact that every time you tilt the swash / turn the rudder too fast you decrease head speed and now you have a constant ballet of axis to correct for a hover.... this is not to say it's not doable, the only reason I'm moving on to side ins and then to nose in is that I can now land precisely in an area the size of a mousepad can fly in idle up and can hover entire packs at a time (18min). Also taken it outside a few times and I can do high speed dives pretty well too.

So far though everything was with a tail in orientation and that's why different orientations is the next step towards forward flight.


Actually if you want a challenge take a box construct a skyscraper (that is a pole roughly 3'-4' high) place a mouse pad on top and try to land on it. The combination of fear of crashing against the side of the box, and high precision required to land on a pinpoint platform keeping in mind that when you cut throttle your heli will most likely slide off the platform is a thrill. The last point will force you to learn how to make recoverable landings aka not fully cut throttle just in case one skid slides off. This is great practice if you're going to land your heli on park benches and on swings (these are fun).