congratulations
But are you saying you controled the throttle aswell? i find this a little hard to take.
hovering is hard to do strait up because of having all your hands and feet going at the same time. of couse the sim helps this, a three axis joystick makes you practice exactly the right thoughts. i too have the same program but the yore axis is controled by twisting the joystick. i can hover the thing but find its a little harder than a real helicopter, and tends to go into an uncontroled spastic attack for no aparent reason. the planes are much more realistic.
and im not sure but i think you may be able to use it to keep your instrument endorcement current (2hrs sim and 1 actualy flying). as they're better than the prehistoric things at most flight schools.
i too was able to hover for long amounts of time on my tif, and the intructer comented that most people cant think of all the control axis in time.
but one thing that i would like on my joystick is throttle control. much more realistic.