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If you are looking for a quick and short answer, then I’d say YES, buy it. Now if you have time and want to know a little about my RC heli flying experience then read on. I started flying the RC heli with an indoor, toy-grade, 3/3.5-channel, infra-red (The sun light will interfere with infra-red), coaxial (2 sets of main rotor/blades) model. It’s cheap, slow, and stable, but less responsive to the control, and the fact that it needs a 20~30 minute charging time for every 3~4 minutes of play is just a pain in you know what. After I became pretty good at it (Also tired of it), I got crazy. I moved up to a 450 class 6-channel collective pitch single rotor model, which was a huge mistake. It’s like from playing with a harmless toy to an upside-down lawn mower! It was a money pit! Every crash (Usually happened in 10 seconds after take-off) would cost me at least $10~$20 for parts and lots of time trying to repair and adjust it myself. Stepping from a 3.5-channel model to a 6-channel one is a big step. If you think you are a born RC heli generous, then I congratulate you. As for the rest of us, it will crash, again, and again, and… I don’t know it’s the fact that I ran out of patience or I almost chopped off my fingers, but my money is definitely running out. So I sold the remaining of the chopper on eBay and completely gave up flying RC heli. About 8 months later, I came across the V911 single rotor indoor/outdoor with gyro model made by WL Toys (I think it’s a 100 class), and saw nothing but positive reviews. Of course I was skeptical this time after I got burned by the big chopper. But considering 1, the kit (RTF- Ready to fly) is still inexpensive; 2. It’s not a lawn mower, so I went for it. Boy I tell ya, I am so happy that I made the decision. I have so much fun with this little buzzer. Oh, by the way, I bought the H911 version because the canopy looks so much cooler.

The gyro works. It’s mentioned in the instruction, but I’ll say it again. You need to set the heli on a leveled surface as soon as you insert the battery, because it will initialize the gyro right after that and uses it as the “base” meaning the heli will always try to return to this position during flight until next initialization. So imagine the heli’s “base” is in a tilted position… Not fun! Fly indoor first if the space is big enough, or fly outside when there is NO WIND during your leaning period. I’d still call it a toy, but there is still a little bit of learning curve, because the heli is very agile and the control is very sensitive compared to the indoor infra-red 3.5-channel model. If the gyro is initialized correctly then it should hover pretty easily. After some trimming, it will hover by itself, and then you will have some serious fun! Remember, crashing is inevitable, at least for me, so practice practice and practice. This little bird can take some `unintentional beatings’. There are a lot of cheap replacement parts you can on eBay, so don’t worry about your wallet being too shallow. Some personal advice: I’d buy another charger and some high capacity (200 mah) batteries to allow more, if not continuous, flying time. I also bought a few replacement canopies and replaced the original one before I destroy it. The shark face is just too cool!

That’s all. I hope that would help you making the final decision. Any comment is welcome. Thanks for reading.