For me it was a Morris Top Cap ARF, TT pro 46 and an APC 12x4 prop.. And lotsa gas! You've just gotta dedicate whole flights to the effort!
People tell me that they just can't seem to get the hang of hovering. But when I watch them fly, I see them try once or twice, during the flight. The rest of the time they're doing loops and rolls and full throttle tumbles.. It's amazes me how much enjoyment some people get out of watching thier funfly plane flop around at full throttle with various full deflection crossed control inputs. :-)

My point is; you need to start with a disposable plane, that is capible of hovering! The Top Cap was a great choice, and still is. I'm afraid the Extreme flight profile edge is better than the top cap, but it wasn't available to me. :-( Besides that you need to know that the only difference between people that can and cant hover is hours of prectice! People will give you all sorts of advice or tricks that will help you hover. Some good some bad! :-)

Fly the piss out you're plane, and write back when you've got it! :-)

The best advice I can give;

1) Learn to hover your plane with enough altitude that you can pull out of anything.. I'd say ~ 40 feet. The key is not to get frustrated at the fact that you're not staying in the hover for very long. At this stage the goal is not to hover, but to learn to recover control of the plane without loosing altitude.. The plane is too far away to to see the subtle changes in attitude that you need to correct for. Just get good at recognizing when the plane has fallen out of the hover, wich direction it fell out, and what control inpu is needed to recover without loosing altitude.. example. when the plane falls onto it's back, adding power and DOWN elevator, and not pulling up completing the second half of a loop before recovering, or trying to roll to upright flight first then pulling up. This wastes altitude, wich you wont have when you get to step 2

2)Now that you can recover from any attitude without loosing any altitude, Bring it down low! This is where it gets fun! Now you can really start to see the subtle changes in attitude and you can start refining your inputs to keep the plane upright.. Obviously it's easier to keep the plane in a hover if you're looking at the top of the plane.. You can use right aileron input to counteract the engine torque, but most people don't realize that if you input just a little tinny bit of down elevator the nose will creep forward and the plane will no longer have the urge to torque roll.

3) Torqu roll.. Hmmmm Just gonna have to practice that one!! :-)

Hope this helps. :-)

Stephan