Wow, your head must be spinning with all this good advice. Just one more thing...
Don't, absolutely don't, compare how long you're taking with how long others take. Do that, and you'll end up beating yourself up for no reason, because you'll think you "ought" to be able to do it in six hours, twelve hours, twenty hours, or whatever. It really, really REALLY, doesn't matter. People learn at different rates. Some pick it up fast, but are always a bit wobbly in any wind. Some take ages, but once they've got it, they're almost perfect in any conditions. I remember being told you couldn't hover for ages, and then you got it all of a sudden. Well, that seems to be the commonest way, but for me it was a slow gradual process from the beginning. Everyone's different. Relax, enjoy it, have a good laugh when you get into those pilot induced oscillations yet again, and trust that by this time next year, and probably long, long before.....you'll be hovering!!!!!!
