Hi everyone. I just bought myself a Blade CX2 today along with the training kit and an extra battery. I installed the training kit, charged the batteries, and did a quick check in the kitchen if the thing would fly level by hovering an inch or two off the kitchen table. It drifted backwards veeeeeery slowly, which I corrected with the trim adjustment.

Then, I took it outside. Now, Edmonton is typically a windy place, but today is remarkably calm. The trees are barely rustling. I put the CX2 out on the ground in the field behind me, slowly increased throttle until it lifted, then found it would slide in the direction of the wind... not unexpected, but at any rate, I pushed forward on the right stick. And pretty much nothing happened. It just slid backwards slightly slower (slower than a walking pace). I figured I wasn't giving it enough throttle, so I increased the throttle a bit until it was slowly climbing, pushed aallll the way forwards on the right stick, and it stopped moving backwards. That was it. So, I let off the right stick (too quickly), and the whole chopper decided to flip backwards and land on its nose. Now one of my upper and one of my lower blades are an inch shorter, and the whole thing vibrates like crazy.

Am I asking too much of a sub-$200 helicopter? Is this normal? I don't have any place inside to fly it. I'm considering just buying new blades, installing them, and bringing the whole shebang back and maybe buying a park flyer airplane. Or maybe a flight simulator

I'm kind of annoyed at it. I didn't even have it out for two minutes before I broke it (yes, I know the blades aren't a huge deal...). I've been reading posts about how you need to adjust this and that and add heatsinks and drill holes and blah blah blah to get it to fly nice and level and behave nicely. I don't want to have to screw around, I don't have the energy to do this. I just want to have a little toy that I can learn to fly a R/C aircraft or heli on. What do you all think?