OK, so I'm in need of some assistance, although some may not agree with what I am doing. I'm pretty much going gung-ho and trying to fly my AXE. Had a bunch of RC cars and used to controls and what not. No SIM for me, I'd rather learn the hard way (since if SIM is like any other SIM, you are basically relearning anyway)

anyway, I'm just trying to get some feedback on what I see. I can get the bird in the air hopping and hovering for a brief few seconds. I experience what I've seen a few people mention in that the bird does not react the same way every time. Sometimes, it will pull up, hover, and give me a pretty solid response, and most importantly, at least a little time to react to its actions. other times, it will pull hard left or right, tilting pretty bad, and I cant recover quick enough. sliding left or right is fine, it's the tilting hard to one direction I can't recover from. i realize I have to add a bit of right stick to counteract during liftoff, but this seems excessive.

this is both indoors on a concrete surface, and outdoors with basically no wind. Is it normal for the bird to go into a hover, then pull hard into a tilt? I've tried to trim out the thing, but that doesn't seem to help. Blade tracking is good, servos look good, everything pretty much matches spec. swash seems to be free, no binding.

I think I will be ok, if I can get the thing to stay horizontal, until I can get familiar with the controls. Will flybar weights help this? adding some weight? any other tips to help out? Oh, this has strictly been with training gear on. It just seems to be sooo unstable compared to some of the videos I have seen.

I'm asking this becuase I have not seen anyone specifically deal with type of issue and explain it, maybe this can expand into a good beginners guide to how the heli is actually operating.

thanks!!!!

Joe