Originally Posted by
212man
Exactly that! I recall clearly going on my second or third hovering session. They were going ok but not as well as I’d have liked. We hover taxied to the practice area but were told to hold short of the active runway. I was looking for the traffic and after a while the instructor piped up and said “do you realise you are in a rock steady hover?” And that was that!
Exactly my experience - However it immediately went to shi1t as soon as my instructor said I was hovering :-).
It will come, and when it does you will wonder why it took so long. My hover square was next to a patch of potatoes, and it was a great feeling the day I stopped drifting over them!