soloboss... I've had my MCX for a few days now... its the most fun one can have indoors... well, besides sex its hands down the most stable and best FLYING coax I've ever had my hands on. You can slide left/right at a good clip but not as fast a foward flight. Foward flight is about as fast as I would like it to be for flying in a small space...2-3 MPH(I'm guessing here) its enough to keep you on your toes but not so fast you get in trouble easily... backward flight on the other hand is almost too fast!

What I normally do is pin the right stick foward and steer with the tail... if I get into a tight spot I'll jam the right stick left/right to move faster in the needed direction(or crash) Speaking of crashing... this little bugger is tough as nails! I have yet to do any damage in several crashes flying into REALLY tight spots... I take that back... I did put a small hair line crack in the canopy and lost one of the tiny O rings that hold the canopy on big deal! by tight spot I mean landing on nick-nack clutered shelfs on my entertainment center... flying over the fan blades on my ceiling fans(not running of course) and in general putting the little guy in spots not much wider/taller than the heli itself... after many blade strikes running into stuff I haven't broken any of the mechanics.

I've never flown a CX but I under stand the heli not wanting to keep foward flight... the MCX does not have this habit... you do need to work the left stick a bit to keep ALT and foward flight speed... its dosen't really try to stop FF... it just slows a bit. I have flown several charges where I simply flew circuits around my living room, into the kitchen and back the entire 6-8min of flight time... to do this I just pined the right stick foward... steer/maintaine ALT and FF speed with the left... very easy.

I did make 2 mods so to speak that really gave me good FF speed... a small 8 32 nut taped inside the nose of the canopy... helped a BUNCH and didn't harm stability(re trim). The other was take the evelvator control rod In about 3 turns... gives you more foward tilt... helped a LITTLE... if you only do one... add the nose weight

Bottom line... GET AN MCX!!!!! and a few spare batt's...you'll want more flight than charge time



Edit to add...

Wow... I did a good job of hijacking samolot's thread[] sorry man... I guess the little MCX still has me excited.

Anyway, to help answer YOUR question... The MCX WILL NOT TEACH YOU TO FLY CP HELI'S!!!!! as a matter of fact it would only lead you to a false sense of security leading to a RAPID first flight crash with a CP heli... trust me... I fly 450 size electrics and 30 size nitro... the MCX and coax helis in general in no way represent CP flight. Your already doing the best thing you can by flying the sim... next step is get the CP heli you want... find someone you trust to help with set up and test fly/trim it for you... and get to crashing... I mean learning.

John