Actually, I'm a rank beginner at helicopters and I pulled the Blade CX out of the box, charged the batteries, and proceeded to hover it in my living room. I just lifted it off, observed what it wanted to do, and dropped it back onto the floor. Then I adjusted the trim to compensate. I've flown it outside some, and it does not handle even a whisper of breeze. It's still nice and stable, it just gets blown away and the amount of cyclic control you have is not enough to make any forward progress in anything but a dead calm. Of course, this is just what it is advertised to do. It seems a pretty good training tool. I need to unlearn some automatic reactions from flying fixed wing RC. My reaction of "when in trouble, hit full throttle" does not work when flying a helicopter indoors. Think about it.
Larry
Steve R wrote: