My first Heli experience was the Hummingbird - Once I had help with the initial set up from my local hobby shop I taught myself in my lounge (with training gear attached).

Fantastic machine, stable (once the swash ball mod was in place) and I can honestly say its been great - almost perfected the nose in hover.

All i would say is that you get 2s Etec 1200 cells from the word go and the thing will give hours of fun - my planes, and i have few, have harldly seen the sky for months.