Nick, that's how I was taught on my wings course. When I went on a Mountain Flying Course my instructor (giga-hours on helicopters) showed how you can use timing and collective to land smoothly in a helicopter with pedals stuck in a right yaw hover rather than chopping the throttle.
I think it's playing with the fact that the airframe responds slowly to the inputs. Also, wind or a little translation helps.
He demonstrated it, talked me through one, and then I was doing them on my own. If I could pick it up like that, I'm sure it could be taught ab initio.
This instructor is also the guy who landed an auto from the left seat of a 206 with his left hand on his cyclic and his right hand on the student's collective. That's another story.
Matthew.
[ 11 August 2001: Message edited by: heedm ]