Hey Gene,

Thanks for the story, and the tips! I have alot to learn, both about flying and setup. Sometimes, for a newbie, I think it's hard to tell how much of the difficulty is the setup/heli itself, or just the lack of experience flying. I have been told and have read that the CPP is probably about the most difficult heli to learn on...and that once one can master it, the others become easy, especially the bigger birds which seem to be more stable, at least the ones on the G4 flight sim certainly are!

Half of me wants to make myself proficient on this heli first, and then move up the scale, and the other half says buy something that's going to be easier to learn on, so as not to get discouraged... One thing is for sure, I need a LOT more time on the sim before I can justify buying any more helicopters, I am still struggling with the nose in, and side in stuff, and I easily get confused and lose orientation on the sim...so I need to work on that a lot more. I also am at a sticking point on the sim practice, and that is, whether to stick to the really difficult, smaller helis like the Heli Max CP, which seem overly difficult to hover and manuver (even compared to my real CPP!), or to go with the helis that seem more similar to the actual heli? I guess the bottom line is, the principals are basically the same, it's just how the different models react and handle.

I have read of a few guys who got so discouraged by trying to learn on the CPP, that they moved on to another heli, and were happy that they did...I am thinking about someday, moving up to possibly a Blade 400, but like I said, I need to at least be able to fly with confidence on the sim...

The other question mark is whether or not to practice with my CX2, I don't know if that would help or hurt my skills on the CPP, they handle and fly so much differently. I guess it's different for different people, just as there are people that just naturally learn this stuff faster than others...

For the time being, I'm just trying to get this CPP to fly and handle the best I can possibly make it, so that I can build my flying skills some more...I like wrenching on the heli, but I also want to make some progress flying it too!

Thanks again for the advice, and the link, I browsed that a little bit ago, and did learn a few things already that I didn't know.

Glenn