I am in the process of doing some research on Heli's as I want to try them out. I have been flying airplanes for a while and wanted to try a Heli. I have been looking at the Micro helis and wanted some opinions as to which was the best 1st heli to get started with. Micro or Nitro. The smaller micro look like at of fun, but I want to get a good one that will last a while. I am assuming that CP is the way to go even if it is something extra to learn off the get go. I have heard good things about the Piccolo Pro, but am concerned if this is to advanced for a beginner to learn. The Piccolo Fun is FP and I have read alot of negative about this Heli. What others are on the market and which do you all recommend for a 1st good overall learning heli....

Firstly I would like to say that I have never flown a micro heli. I have considered it and done a fair amount of research.

My research came up with the fact that the micro helis are very unstable. The majority of them seem to be pretty poor straight from the box. Most need to be heavily upgraded with brushless motors, direct drive tail motors, new speed controllers and decent batteries (Li-po).

This all leads to a very expensive little heli. (probably as expensive, if not more than a 30 nitro)

I have flown nitro helis and larger electric helis (Raptor 30, Ergo 30, Nexus 30 and Mikado Logo 10 electric)

The Logo 10 is a little smaller than the others and is only slightly more 'twitchy'. It would probably be OK for a beginner. However to get decent performance it has top of the range components and easily costs twice that of the Raptor.

The nitro helis can seem intimidating. They are noisy, smelly and can be messy. However they are quite stable and suprisingly good value for money. Crash costs are probably slightly higher than the micros (but a lot less than the Mikado) but you will not crash them so often.