Just got back into the hobby this year after a 15 year break and got my first fun fly plane, a Magic, not much luck hovering. Bought a Morris Knife, much easier to hover, after 3 months of flying I got it. Probably equivalent to 2 gallons of just hovering.

Put the Magic back into the air and all of a sudden I can hover it too!! Still a little trickier than the Knife.


The only secret is find a plane what is "easy" to hover and learn on it. Burn fuel and you'll have it


I didn't have any special setup with CG or Spoilerons/Flapeorns etc. and I don't have a simulator. The better you get at it the more addictive it gets, the more you do it, the better you get so you do it more etc. and it kind of snowballs.