Gene:

The hands-off thing is something that I had to have drummed into me when I first started. Only with me, it was overcorrecting.. always trying to get ahead of the plane, but of course, I was behind it and trying to correct it from something that I had pretty much no control over. Once my instructor trimmed it out, handed it over to me, and I made a few orbits, he told me to remove my hands from the box and watch the plane. By gosh, it did the same thing with no hands as it was doing with me trying to correct it all the time.

This could be a combination of all the above, so just working with him to get the feel down is time consuming, but, once he gets the hang of it, gaining confidence that it won't just drop out of the sky, well, you may have the hardest part behind you.

Good luck!!

CGr.