Moving over to a new model....

[Steve]

The Raptor is sedate and calm when setup out of the box, and has numerous options to turn up the response. The TRex is a 3D orientated highly responsive heli when setup out of the box which has options to turn it down, and up.

Your so called expert is probably quite happy flying both styles of heli for himself and should have discussed the differences with you and made adjustments as necessary. If he didn't talk about this with you, then he didn't act in your best interests or consider your ability, so his station as an 'expert' should be questioned.

Just because someone has been flying for a long time, or can perform every flipping, pirouetting, tumbling, sliding, backwards trick in the book does not by default make them an expert.

[Delta7]

Agreed. But I think it was me and my nerves that caused the 2 crashes, and since my confidence has taking a blow (or 2 in this case!) then calming it down till I get used to it is a good thing.
He's seen my bombing my raptor around and did say he has set up the 600 less than what it's capable of !

[alex]

New sites can be hard too as you learn to rely on the visual cues of the terrain. We have now moved to our winter flightline at our field and it is hilarious trying to reset my head- it has hills and slopes!!

Don't beat yourself up but also don't be scared of the new heli- you have crashed it twice now so the fear factor should be gone- go back to basics, hover, side on, have a jink up and down on the pitch, jink sideways- actively move it so you can see the response for yourself ie you tell the heli what to do rather than reacting to where it is going- does that make sense.

All this talk of expo makes me nervous :P