My first heli was an old used Kyosho Concept 30DX that flew great. I was off of the training gear and doing forward flight and loops with in my first week. Then after a while I sold the Concept and bought a new Hirobo Shuttle Plus kit, built it, set it up and had to sell it before I had a chance to fly it.
I will say one thing about flying helicopters , it made me a much better airplane pilot!!!