Quattro27

I'm with Rototiller on this one, lose the gear as soon as you can. If you can hover ok and land, then it has served its purpose. IMHO, its only a training device, nothing more.

The other thing you will notice is that the helicopter has slightly different flight characteristics with the training gear off, i.e. it is lighter, the rotor wash doesn't catch on the gear anymore, and also one tends to become reliant on the training gear for orientation.

You will also find, as I did, that landing without the gear is not as hard as you think it is