Hi,
I am new to helis (about 6 months) and thought I would throw my weight into my experience of what heli.

I started with a twister cp2 TOTAL PANTS !! never got it off the ground and then it literally burnt out.

I then invested £225 in a fully modified new WALKERA 36 with brushless moter and decent charger. I was able to hover it out of the box, but found the tail servo so slow you could go have lunch and return before it had responded. So back to the supplier who fitted a tower servo, repalced all my other servos with the ones salvaged from my twister (esky) replaced the gyro with a better one, £50 later i have a heli that can hover with zero imput from the left stick ( can you tell im new to this !!) and responds amazingly well.

i personally would recommend this model BUT upgrade ALL the electrics and you will have one hell of a heli.

I got it from a guy in the new forest hampshire UK, hae fully sets them up for you and will even demostrate it before you take it away ( if you live local) he does a rebuild service for only £15 plus parts

Also found the walkera amazingly stable in abreeze
Cheers
Michael