ORIGINAL: BryFlyGuy67
ORIGINAL: USHobbySupply
I believe that the coax's are a great learning tool. It takes time for the eye-hand coordination to sink in and learning which way you need to move your fingers when the heli does x takes time. Will it teach you enough to be a perfect flier of more advanced birds, no. The only draw back to these coax helis is that they are inherently stable, while the bigger single rotor birds are inherently unstable. But they do make for a good starting point, just dont expect to transition from the coax to the cp birds in one giant step.
It's funny you say that, Michael, as that is exactly what I did!
I had 2 CX2's modded up pretty heavily and then took the plunge and stepped up to the TREX 450 SE V2. It really was not that bad. Having said that, I did purchase a good simulator to practice on, which helped me a lot.
I did exactly the same thing, started with a CX which I upgraded to all metal head and swash parts and moved on to a T-Rex 450 after a brief and not so friendly encounter with a CP Pro. My first T-Rex was the all plastic XL but what I learned from the CX was enough that I could move on to the T-Rex and only used training gear for the first couple of flights.