If you're wanting to jump right in with a CP heli, I would not recommend you get any of the 'cheap' chinese RTF micros. I too started with a Blade CP, and I gurantee you it would have been cheaper to start with a T-REX in the long run. Those little micros are so fidgety and poorly built that you will be constantly replacing parts and upgrading with little improvement. You will either give up on helis altogether, or wind up dumping it and buying soemthing better anyway most likely...

A T-REX can be set up with conservative throws and heavy paddles, and will be 1000% easier to learn with than any micro heli on the market.


If you want a good trainer, another way to go would be a small fixed-pitch heli like a honeybee or one of the myriad of clones out there. They are very hard to fly, and you will outgrow it, but you can learn to hover and basic flight without breaking the bank.