<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Good Evening Everyone,</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">I think I have been bitten by the RC bug again. As a kid I spent many hours building and flying both CL and RC powered planes and later, as a teen, I built and flew a number of RC gliders. To give you some idea of how long ago that was, my very first plane was a Swordsman CL which cost a total of about $16.00 for the plane, a bottle of dope and a new Fox .049 engine. I spent many hours spinning around in circles in the middle of an empty lot flying that plane but I sure had a lot of fun doing it.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Anyway, I have always wanted to fly RC helicopters but the old fuel powered models were expensive and extremely difficult to build and fly. I recently had an opportunity to fly an electric micro coaxial model and had a blast with it. It was so easy to fly that I bought a used E-flight Blade mSR, replaced a few banged up parts on it and had a blast flying it around my living room. Unfortunately, just when I felt I was really getting the hang of it, it crashed and was lost at sea (it landed in my reef aquarium). I quickly began salvage operations and spent the next couple of hours drying it off with a hair dryer but when I tried it out, one of the servo motors spit out a nice puff of smoke and quickly fried. I have ordered a new servo and I&rsquo;m now waiting for it to arrive so I can make repairs. So far the main control board seems to be fine; I&rsquo;m just hoping I don&rsquo;t have to put out $60.00 to replace it but I will find out as soon as the new servo arrives.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">My plan now is to get my mSR flying again so I can spend a few months mastering the controls and then move to a larger model that I can fly outdoors. Even thought it&rsquo;s been a long time since I&rsquo;ve flown anything RC, I was quite surprised at how well I did after not having touched a controller in 25 years. Once I get some flying time under my belt I will decided whether to move to a larger fixed blade like the Blade 120 or put my skills to the test and jump to a collective pitch like the Blade 400. In any case I will be following a lot of the posts on the forum so I can get a feel for just how difficult flying a collective pitch really is.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Jim</div>

Welcome back good to have you a 400 size is not bad choice I had fun with mine but my raptor 30 and 50 is much easier to fly so I never really flew do to that so if I had to recomend something it would be a raptor 30 or 50 love mine or a trex 500. There is a lot of them to choose form now days eflite blades are good if I was to get a nother 400 size it would be a blade I had a hel max axe 400 but the blade seems to have a bunch of upgrades avialbe such as meatal parts