Motions:: I'm not sure why people recommend hovering at mid stick, it just doesn't make since.
However ... it does make SENSE especially for the beginner that may be a little too quick on the stick responses.
Hovering at mid-stick means about half of your stick movement is from hover to full up. Changing to hover at 75% stick means you have only a quarter stick movement from hover to full up. This cuts the stick resolution (from hover to full up) in half. This is OK for the experienced but could be a bit tweeky for the beginner. Once a pilot has doffed the beginners outfit, by all means put 0 degrees at mid-stick and fly the dickens out of the thing.
Motions:: ... Once you get to acrobatics
What makes you think that every heli pilot has the same goals to do acrobatics? All I hear is "you gotta put 0 at mid-stick" or "you gotta make all the modes the same", etc. Well I've been flying for almost 6 years and guess what ... my normal mode is still close to where it was a few years ago.
The only thing you gotta do is fly safe and fly the way that makes you happy. Everything else is pilots perogative.
Motions:: ... it's really going to screw up your learning. All modes should have the same stick positions.
Are you telling me it's harder to learn the change from mid-stick hover to 75% stick hover than it is to learn let say inverted nose in hovering?
I don't disagree that it's good advice to readjust your normal mode so that it resembles the top half of your advanced modes. I just disagree that it'll "screw up your learning". By the time you've gained the stick savy to transition to advanced modes, the transition to hover at mid-stick to hover at 75% will come pretty easy ... in comparison to some of the manuevers you'll be doing next.
Good Luck,
d.tipton