I'm thinking of getting a Heli to play around with during the winter. I'm looking at the Blade MCX & the Blade MSR. I'm going to go with the BNF due to the DX5e i won at the meeting. It looks like the MCX is more for beginners but it only comes with 1 battery and the charger only charges 1 battery at a time. The MSR is for intermediate flyer's but it comes with 2 battery's and the charger can charge 4 battery's at a time. I thought maybe i would get the MCX (because I'm a beginner ) and just buy the 4 input battery charger, but its over $50.00 Then i would still have to buy 3 more battery's to buy, which would put me over the price of the MSR. But i don't want to buy the MSR if i cant handle it because I have never flown a Heli. Decisions Decisions !!!!!!........I welcome any suggestions.......
One thing to take into account is a heli cannot be trimmed to fly by itself. My heli instructor once told me that if you can trim a heli to hover in one place for more than 5 seconds you did it well.
Ok, so now here is what I would do, "back in the day" I bought the Blade CX twin rotor. Loved that thing so much that I went and bought the extra batteries and all the aluminium that you could get for it not to mention and different charger which was the one Hyperion that is out for 169.00 that can do any battery you may have, run on AC or DC and can also balance batteries. I still fly that CX indoors at work.
I also bought the Blade 400 that came with the DXi6. That is one heli I would never even consider flying indoors but because I went all out on the CX I did not need anything else short of extra batteries. I even bound the CX to the DX6i so I did not need to carry two radios should I take both somewhere with me.
My point is start with the most docile heli, get used to it, practice hovering in one spot, tail in and nose in, it's a lot harder than it looks as you will be constantly making changes on the sticks, then once you are comfortable with that then move to flying very small figure 8's nad go from there. You will get to a point that you think you are ready but resist the urge to move just yet. Start doing precision landings, something like setting up a 6 inch square and landing on it from all directions.
Oh yea, just go for it when buying the extra goodies like the charger, you will end up using it for many other things, not just the heli.
When my dad announced to purchase Helicopter, I was on cloud nine!"