Finally a decent flight. I had the blade cp. I was careful about learning to hover but did so on my 8X12 deck mostly surrounded by brick on 3 sides. I took a few crashes, of course, here and there. Long story short, over a few months of being able to hover well I went through a few parts (1 4in1 among many others) and my blade eventually flew like crap. I was fed up with troubleshooting the problems and sold it on Ebay. After a few months I just got the blade cp pro after having the blade cx2 for the past couple months, previously. I've got to say, the blade cx2 is a fun and quality heli for playing with indoors. If you want 1 keeper heli to fly indoors, get it. Anyway, so I got back to the cp pro today. I couldn't make it to the park but while hovering well finally had the confidence to take it up to 10, 20 and then about 30 or 40 feet in the air and take it behind my house into an open wilderness area. I flew it for awhile there and then back, carefully and maybe a bit wobbly at times. My 2 yr old daughter got in the way of my landing area, and in my distraction got a little crazy and within probaby a couple inches of my house. My heart pounding after that, I landed it, and all is well with my new cp pro uncrashed as of yet. It's nice to finally have a 'real' flight under my belt vs. just hovering. It's frustrating learning these things as a new pilot and seeing your $250 heli crash, not knowing how much the repairs will cost or even if you can make them. Eventually, if you enjoy it and stick with it and it's worth it.

So tomorrow I'm going fulll throttle and upside down. Or maybe that'll be next week.