Doug,

The Hiller head on the CP+ isn't that hard to control, but for a newbie it might. I jumped right to the Bell-Hiller head on the CPP and that was too much for me when I was learning to fly.

I think the G90 costs too much for an Ok gyro. I had a Futaba GY240 and GY401 on my CPP and that helped some, but the only way I could get it to work was I had to get a seperate ESC for the tail motor. The biggest improvement was a Direct Drive tail motor. There was a company that sold a kit, but I can't remember the name. If you can get the E-Flite version from the CPP2 that would also work.

Nick