ypres,

Nice post. It will help others to understand that the shakes are normal. The shakes can help make you a better pilot because if you listen to them they are telling you something and that is exactly what I see you doing. Trust me, I still get the shakes after I fly the first time after not flying for a little while, while doing the first flight on a new plane and a host of others. My shakes get worse with the more expense I have in the plane until I get used to it.

I don't mind telling others about them. Gives them a laugh and helps to settle me down.

That's good that you are holding it on the ground until you are sure it's ready to fly. Allot of students first reaction if it gets slightly out of shape on the ground is to give it up elevator and sometimes the plane is not really ready to fly so it stalls and now as an instructor I have to try to recover it.

I did not see what plane you are flying but if it has a nose wheel you can try moving the control rod for it closer to the center of the servo to help make it less sensitive.