I'm doing my PPL(H) training at the moment and the advice given here is brilliant!
I have only recently got the hang of hovering (still a little shakey at times though).
I can remember the day it all seemed to click. I had just completed a circuit and was on the FATO. I noticed that as airspeed came to zero, everything was in perfect balance - a perfect hover. I also noticed that I only needed very small inputs to maintain this hover (unlike my previous attempts). My brain was talking to my eyes, hands and feet without me thinking about it!
At this point, the hover taxi up the FATO to go and do another circuit seemed very wierd - I could hardly move forwards (something to do with the huge grin on my face as I realised I was hovering and relaxed!)
SoloUK