I decided to buy this item as a Birthday gift, after much pondering, thinking it would be more durable than the smaller, cheaper models. I was wrong.
Straight out of the box the UK adaptor did not work, and everything looked a bit too plasticky and cheap. This already gave us a bad impression, but we could have overlooked it if everything else had been fine.
The first day flying the helicopter, after careful calibration, we noticed it would not move forward or backwards (on the slow setting, we did not have time to try the fast mode). The third time it tried to take off, the piece that holds the top blades in place snapped at the base, with the blade intact (thus not because it had accidentally hit something). The helicopter crashed out of control, luckily we were not too close when that happened, since we might have been injured.
I can understand that a piece may have a defect, and snap for no reason, but this added up to the other two problems. Perhaps I am being unrealistic, but I was expecting a better quality for this price.
All in all, a big disappointment, especially considering it was a Birthday gift.