Hi Ned, thank you again for the kind offer.
I can still vividly remember the moment hovering a helicopter finally "clicked"!
I was with my FI waiting to cross Bristols runway to transit to the South side where we were allowed to train. I had been struggling for sometime to hold the helicopter in a stable hover for any length of time. On this day, the airport was quite busy and I was watching a passenger shuttle bus on the other side of the runway, that was ferrying people to the terminal building, and as it was "in the distance" I had my head up, and finally it all clicked together and I found myself relaxing into the hover!
Now I understand why I kept being told, look outside, look up and scan the distance, don't fixate on the 10 feet in front of you!
Fond memories!
JBL