I the floor made me feel sad, so sad. LOL. Yeah I agree with you where practicing your first run on the floor helps but no one told me just how usefull, rather useless it can be. Pro: help learn controls and respnsiveness. Con: actual flight is much better at even a ft up, and hours of wasted frustration trying to hold my position, also trim is practically useless compared to the settings needed a few feet up where you actually are tring to fly eventually. Mainly I let the helicopters performace frustrate me when actully it flies terrific a few ft up and this is like my third day. So yeah the floor can help but just know where and when to move on.