The best mod for the Axe or any heli for that matter is practice.
Anybody can plop down hundreds maybe thousands of dollars on a heli and still be the worse pilot ever!!

I have seen videos of Axe CPs doing aerobatics and for that matter I have seen numerous motorized tail helis doing all the same things that the pitch controlled tails do. Motorized tails may not have the same snap or quickness as a pitch controlled tail but they can and do all the same things.

Want proof?? Do a search on youtube for electric helicopters and I beleive on this forum there are videos from a flying competition featuring many motorized tail helis (micro and minis).

I have not dedicated much time on a sim yet. I fly my AxeCP in a very tight area (about 6 x 6 with furniture on 3 sides) and believe me it is not easy with so little room for error and the rotorwash bouncing off the furniture and making the heli jump and drift in random directions. But I can fly it in that small area! Every day I get little better at keeping it in one place under those conditions. The few times I have been able to go to a large indoor area, I have hovered to near perfection. Have I crashed my heli? Yup, Plenty of times. Have I had to spend money on parts? Yup. But my motivation is the money, crash less therefore spend less. Sims are great but nothing like the real thing. Do you think those guys who drive racecars spend time on a sim between races? NO! They get in a REAL car and drive it around on REAL tracks.

Practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, even pros do it.

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