Learning RC helis is a tricky one IMO.. buy one too cheap and it'll be shonky and not a nice true fly and you'll have to be working the sticks (which makes learning hard)


On the other hand you don't want to spend a fortune coz you'll most certainly be smashing it up a few times..

Personally I'd buy something like an electric hummingbird or similar. Fixed pitch but you can fly around, control up, down, forward and back and left and right pitch and the nose with tail rotor speed.

They are cheap to buy and repair. Don't use training gear on a small electric heli, they are too light to fly nicely with a load of unbalanced crap hanging off them.

A basic heli like that will come pre built and only thing you'll have to keep your eye on is the flybar paddles (making sure they are flat and level every time you have a littl prang)

I taught myself to fly on a hummingbird and it took me a fair while. I got my mate to buy one and I had him hovering quite nicely in no time as telling him the things that take you a while to figure out on your own helped. He was struggling until I looked over his heli and noticed the paddles were slightly off (you'll be fighting against a bad setup if you don't know) What I suppose I'm getting at is a teacher will have you flying in no time.

WHile you are doing this buy yourself a raptor nitro heli setup, take time to get to know it and the setup. When you've mastered the small electric fella go for the raptor and you'll be fine.

The bigger nitro heelis are actually easier to fly, a few things help.. size and weight not as effected by breeze, collective pitch blades mean you can run faster head speed creating a more stable effect etc.

I had a nitro heli but found it all a bit too serious for me and you obviously need a big area etc. They are most certainly a serious bit of kit, it's quite scarey the 1st time you get one up to speed before lift off (especially if you've built the fooker ) I sold mine and bought a sort of mid size electric collective pitch heli, brushless motor an lipo battery etc. It suits me better as I can use it in the back garden, my nitro one just sat unused.

It's certainly a lot easier to get into RC helis these days. I remember around 20 years ago my uncle building one which took a fookin age. I was there for it's first flight... I think he managed 10 feet in the air, shit himself, pannicked... one bag of scrap, literally.