Like many (most?) everybody starting as a little kid had the 2 stroke .40 size airplanes for many years, got pretty good at aerobatic R/C planes before I was old enough to fly the real birds.

I recently was introduced to r/c helicopters as they seem to be everywhere due to the better electronics / batteries / reduced cost. Totally different beast from the bigger gas r/c planes I was used to, but is a fun learning curve. I started with the Falcon 40 (exceed) as I didn't want to spend a lot of money. Buy some additional blades from the start. Took me almost two weeks of occasional flying before I could master hovering, but once you get the feedback routine into your brain you will be fine.

My single biggest advice is to fly in a *big* room. I kept on wondering why after 30 seconds it would go wild and I couldn't control the thing anymore, but those little things create severe wake turbulence and make it difficult to control unless your room is big enough to dissipate the vortices.