Thanks for your thoughts and replies.
I spent many hours practising hovering on x-plane, purely for hand/pedal/eye co-ordination. As it is difficult to get proper reference with the ground on a 2d sim I had to rely on the instruments. That said, my second lesson in an r22 concentrated on hovering due to poor weather conditions.
I had it hovering maintaining position and direction in a couple of mins and put that down to the co-ordination practise in x-plane.