Well, miracles do happen. I got some stick time with an instructor. We did find that the blades were out of track a bit. We shortened the ball link rod on the high balde. by 3 turns to fix it. We tweeked the OS and the rest looked good. Our club instructor flew the Venture a few times and shook it pretty hard to see if it "felt right". You know hard up, hard down, pitch this way and that. Due to the training gear he did not do any aerobatics. After the shake down flights he said he thought it was fine and coached me through a few flights. It went much better. I had much better control, and was able to mostly put the heli where I wanted. I couldn't keep it there long, but that will come. This time most hovering happened from knee to shoulder height. His thoughts were that some of my "problems" were rotor wash. He was right. The heli was much better behaved up around chest height. There is too much going on at 3 inches up for me to control at this time. The drift to the left is still strong, but I can trim out most of it. Another benefit of watching him fly was seeing the heli in it's stable attitude. Now I can match it, somewhatly. Before it was hard to let it hang to the right without being concerned. Then I blew some covering off of my rotor blades. That was a good time to quit I think, but he taped it up for the last 1/2 of a flight. We were doing to well to go home then. A Great Day!