The above is very true.  IMAC taught me the importance of flying a straight line with wings level and maintaining altitude.  I see guys hovering, trying all sorts of things, and yet they still can't fly straight and level or keep orientation across field and parallel to the field.  Yet they will say why don't you do X or Y.  My reply is I can throw the sticks in the corners like everyone else, but everyone else can't execute a precise manuever...IMAC is a good place to learn.  Now off planes to helis...

I marvel at how certain guys want to progress to 3D with helis, but still can't quite do nose in, left side/right side facing and generally have full upright orientation.  The first time they fly a loop and come out corkscrewed they are really screwed because they never saw that orientation in a stationary hover....It's a pain in the a.. to learn the basics and stick with it but there will come a time when it all falls together and you see you are move advanced than guys starting with you who did not spend the time...Then you start with your inverted orientations....yet another learning curve...