RSM, I'm afraid that none of these people are actually telling the truth. Every instructor knows the secret magic hover button. They press it when they take control and release it when they hand control back. There is no other explanation as to why, when you're trying to hover you have a mad three dimensional tango about most of (in my case) Wiltshire and when they're showing you the aircraft could be super glued to a clear pylon.
It's one of the dark secrets of the rotory brotherhood. After a while they wire the button on for you and all's well until you become an instructor.
They'll all deny it.
