Hi Philip,

I had to respond to this to describe my experince to you. I was in the same delima that you are in. I couldn't decide what I want to do. Buy a CP or a Fix Pitched. If you have had any plane or past helicopter experince, and were comfortable flying, i would suggest a CP (Collective Pitch) Heli. I bought the Axe CP about two weeks ago with the Li-Po battery and i'm loving it. It's hard to control period, but I was hovering it on the 5th charge of the battery. The tail moves around alot, but chasing it in my opinion make you a better pilot, but also makes it a hard flyer for the beginner. I haven't used the idle up switch on this bird yet, so the collective and throttle are mixed togeather thus making your height easy to control. You just really have to stay on top of the cyclic and tail. The only complaint I have about the thing is the battery. I can only imagine what the Ni-MH is like. I get about 10-15 min flt time with the Li-Po which I think is alot better from what I've heard from others on the Ni-MH of about 5 or so Mins. So my suggestion is, if you have any experince with RC flying in the past, I think you'll do fine with this. Just take your time. Get all your trims set correctly, and get the hovering down before starting foward flight..

rcowboy