Good job OldDog! My instructor taught me to look far away, not close to the helicopter, and he was right, much better field of view and sense of motion. During type training in the MD500, I had occasion to need to pick up into the hover just outside the hangar. The door was closed, and I was looking at its entirely featureless brown surface. I realized as I began to pick up that I had no sense of position whatever. I set back down, and suggested that maybe my mentor would do this one, which he did with grace. I probably would have been fine, but we were a long way from home, it was not the time/place to make an error. Let your view of as much world as possible help you orient yourself!