Some planes hover better than others (I tried my friend´s plane to hover and it was kid´s game compared to my plane). POWER is needed to make it easy. Control surfaces must move a lot. I use no EXPO - makes me faster and I feel fine with it (before I used 70% Expo - now it´s 0%). I shortened (screwed in) my radio sticks to minimum so I can get faster the wanted inputs - works for me (not for shaking fingers ;-) )...........Ele and ruder servos better be FAST (use 6V too) making the life easier.