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• Thunder AC6 (with internal Power suppply)
• Dynam Supermade (with internal Power supply)
• Mystery 50W charger at DealExtreme (requires 12V power supply)
• Mystery 50W charger at DealExtreme with case (requires 12V power supply)
• You can use an existing 2S/3S battery charger from your Fixed Pitch Esky/Walkera/Exceed helicopter if you have one. It will just take more time to charge and the charger does not protect you from faults as well.
•  Battery Charger Category at Hobby City

1. Metric Allen wrench set. Don't skimp on this. Get something that won't strip on you. You will need 1.5mm, 2mm, 2.5mm. You will need 2 of the 1.5mm ones. A L shaped Allen set is good to have for your second set but for your initial tools, I recommend something like this: EXI Tool Kit
2. Pitch Gauge. You will need to be able to measure the pitch of the blades. Once again in the EXI Tool Kit you get one or you can get one from the LHS that works on 450 sized helicopters.
3. Ball link pliers. Don't try to use your fingers or needle nose pliers on ball links. Over time you will warp the ball links. Get a set of Ball link pliers. Once again, found in the EXI Tool Kit.
4. Needle Nose Pliers (EXI tool kit has them)
5. Small phillips head screwdriver (EXI tool kit has them)
6. Wire cutters. (EXI tool kit has them)
7. Lipo Meter (for use to test your batteries at your flying location)

1. Small Wire ties. For dressing up the wires after a rebuild.
2. Foam double stick tape. I don't like the white stuff that has the green scotch pattern on both sides. Instead, I prefer black "servo tape" or better yet, at your Home Depot, you should be able to find 3M Scotch 4011 Exterior Mounting Tape. This is Gray with red plastic release paper. You can use that to stick the Rx, Gyro or ESC back to the helicopter. Use 2 layers for the Gyro. You will need this after a rebuild if you have to change servos.
3. Velcro w/ sticky back. I put the softer fuzzy side on the batteries and the hook side onto the battery tray. Only using velcro straps to hold the battery down will allow it to slide out. I don't recall if the kit comes with any velcro or not but you better use some

• Although this kit is sold as RTF, It is highly recommended by many exerianced flyers that with any RTF or ARF kit that you remove ALL metal to metal screws on the helicopter and re-apply blue loctite. Some screws will already have some loctite. If they are hard to remove, heat them up with a heat gun or a hairdryer. Give the heat time to soak into the metal and get to the threadlock. Blue Loctite or Permitex is what is recommended. 
• Note: When checking pitch curves, disconnect 2 of the 3 wires going from the ESC (electronic speed controller) to the brushless motor.
• Check out the pitch curve in Normal and Idle up that is currently programmed into your Tx. If you need to change them, refer to the RTF radio page to run the PC software and inspect/change the curves. Pitch and Throttle curves are a personal thing. Most 3D pilots prefer the center stick to be 0 pitch.  This allows anything above 50% for the pitch curve to be positive Pitch and anything below to be Negative Pitch.  Hover point should be with about 4 degrees of pitch and about 65-75% throttle. By default, the Blueray should have come so that about 3/4 throttle is about 4.5 to 5 degrees of pitch, so hover point is just around 3/4 stick on the collective/throttle. 
• My recommended novice pitch curve (each of the 5 points measured with a pitch gauge) is: -2,-2,0,4, 8 degrees. Remember, center stick is Zero pitch. Novice pilots start out NOT flipping the idle up (3D) switch on the Tx while training.
• My recommended Novice throttle curve (each of the 5 point values as entered into T6config) is 0,50,75,85,100
• Verify that the swashplate is level (eyeball it) throughout the movement of the collective stick. If not, you may need to do a leveling procedure. (do it by eyeball if you don't have a swash leveler)
• Verify the Gyro is operating by doing a gyro pinch test. The newest Blueray RTF helis come with an MKS292 gyro. They must be initialized in Heading Hold mode, if not initialized, it will just continuasly blink at you.
• You should already be able to hover a Collective pitch or Fixed Pitch helicopter before flying this otherwise you should be flying with training gear installed.  If you don't have training gear, you can make it yourself with dowel rods and plastic whiffle balls screwed into the ends. Just cut a hole in one side of the wiffle ball to insert the dowl rod.  Attach to heli landing skids with wire ties. Make sure the training gear is well centered and will not slide or it will make the helicopter drift alot to one side. 
• For the novice, lots I have a Training section here
• If you have not done so already, you will want to do a throttle range calibration as found here:
• Xheli has produced some good Setup videos. In addition to the advice above, I have links to those videos plus my own commentary on them located HERE