Good analogy AeroDave, it is like balancing on a basket ball and a levitating one at that. Darticus, yes the flybar weights help, thinking of another analogy ie. balancing with a horizontal pole instead of balancing without. The extra weight enhances the gyroscopic effect and slows the paddles. Moving the servo linkagages in towards the servos reduces their throw. You just have to enlarge the holes for the linkages. I also found removing the linkages from the servo arms while the arms are on the servos is easier. I think you may have to remove one servo to get at it's arm so leaving the arms on is easier. Bef, I moved mine in by one hole. Before you are done you should unplug the main and tail motors, then center your sticks and with the power on tighten of loosen the links to level the swash. Once you have the swash level pull the throttle back and check the pitch of your blades. They should be at or near zero - horizontal when viewed edge on. If after this your heli doesn't lift off, just repeat by tightening your linkages a few turns. Just turn them all by the same amount and you won't have to level the swash again. Check your throttle and repeat until you get the desired lift off. This will adversely affect your ability to fly inverted, but all we are trying to do here is hover. My swash needed leveling out of the box, but once done, what a difference. I can finally hover for minutes at a time and slew around a bit. It's still not easy, like the CX2. You can sleep and fly the CX2, but by comparison you are always active in flying the CP Pro. I actually like the challenge.