Jaless, As a fixed wing pilot, your familiar with the sticks of course. Though you have to re-invent the wheel when it comes to hovering. In forward flight heli's are more comparable to an airplane and trimming is essential to getting any craft to respond to exactly how you wish it to, heli's its number one especially in hover.. Trial and error and patience are key factors. The better you trim out the hover, the better chance you have at recovery. With an airplane trimmed out nice, you can get in a level attitude and let it fly straight, scratch an itch, have a friend give you a drink off the water bottle. smile for a photo. etc. With a heli. Same goes. Though its not forward flight your reaching for.. its predictablity. It needs your attention 24/7(metaphorically speaking of course). DONT BLINK, it has a mind of its own. There are more aspects of trimming a heli than an airplane, As you progress into forward flight with it, it will become more natural but master that hover first.. If it drifts left.. trim right on the cyclic, If it spins right.. trim it out left on the rudder. If the tail wags.. back off the gyro, if you grow nads and wanna see what happens when you push the throttle more than normal, watch what happens, if it favors left.. turn up the proportional(proportional makes the tail blow harder relative with the rotor head if ya turn it up) and visa versa. A whole new set of aerodynamics are involved, The single most important thing you need to concentrate as an airplane pilot, getting into heli’s is hover.. period.. after that it’ll all make sence.. but it’ll take as much time to hover.. as it did for you to land a plane nose in.. (reflect)