As an experienced professional fw pilot I had an Aviation mid life crisis and finally gained a ppl/h after 7 years albeit very part time. My first flight with a bit of hovering thrown in was a humiliating exposure to my lack of inate ability. The whole of Yorkshire would barely have contained the wild gyrations that were my initial attempts at hovering. I call bs on any immodest declarations of not having any issues with seat of the pants heli flying. I realised after awhile that an understanding of rotary physics was important which one probably does not have at the beginning. A lack of self deprecation in pilot world is also and generally an invitation to that fickle mistress, karma.