thanks for the reply. with regard to CCPM and mechanical mixing, are the flight characteristics the same or is one better than the other?

5-8 minutes is pretty lame, i was hoping for at least 10-15...now i'm really torn...

do you know if any of these CP micros that come fully setup with radios are at all suited to outdoors versus a larger T-rex style? i've read that the blades are really hard to fly, twitchy etc, but i haven tseen much on the others...night rangers etc..i guess maybe i should take an intermediate step before going nitro or gas to get thru the summer...decisions decisions