Hello yall!!

After getting a flimsy rc helicopter for christmas, I've got the helicopter bug but that one that Ihad broke (it was going to eventually) I'm on a pretty tight budget but Iwant to get a quality helicopter where Ican have decent control.

Thanks!!

Welcome to the hobby, phouse. So, your situation is fairly common, getting something for Christmas or Birthday and getting hooked. That's a good thing.

Anyway many gifts like that are the small 2-channel indoor helis that can be vary hard to control. If you got that kind, don't bother to try to repair it. I find you need a minumun of 3 channels to have a decent amount of control of any heli. Here is a good one that is still considered to be a toy by many folks, but has 3 channels and easy to control inside. Uses infrared control (rather than radio) so can't do outside if the sun is up.

http://www.xheli.com/newsy3chs1mi.html

If you want to fly outside, you'll need something a little larger, and probably 4 channels. Here is a good example of a nice single rotor 4 channel that uses an actual radio transmitter that has much more range than infrared. Of all the single rotor fixed pitch helis, this one is fairly easy to fly.

http://www.helidirect.com/walkera-cb...er-p-19165.hdx

Hope this helps.