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welcome Mike,

LOL, that's funny. You've practically gotten your whole family addicted to these things.

The left stick on my yellow one isn't spring loaded either, but the right stick is, and my S107 is absolutely genuine. They must have changed the design. I've seen some forum posts and Youtube videos, where people were complaining about the spring loaded throttle control, so much so that they took the controller apart and removed the spring, lol. I guess the manufacturer must have gotten wind of this and decided to leave the spring off the left stick. If that's true, I think it's pretty cool of Syma to actually listen to their customers. Maybe they could also do something about the sluggish forward/reverse control. In my opinion, it's actually a good thing that it doesn't go that fast, for beginners like me, at least.

I found this battery mod on Amazon amazon.com/Syma-S107G-upgrade-battery-shrink/dp/B008MQ7QV0/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2HHX9L3XUGC4A&coliid=I125DI2SW1Y5CM . Looks pretty simple to do, and it's supposed to increase flight time "from stock 6-8 minutes to 10-15 minutes". I thought I'd give it a try. I'll post on how it works out.

As for what patterns to fly. Practice until you can do nice tight figure eights, and land on something small, like a shoe box or a medium pizza box (you do have delivery pizza in the UK, right?)