Tips:
1. Get the Ikarus Aero Fly Pro Deluxe flight simulator. Best $200 you will ever spend and it will save you a BUNDLE in crashes and really steepen the learning curve bigtime.. www.aeroflypro.com . I improved 500% within a month of getting a flight sim. Its been a year now and I can do about any 3D manuever you can think of except I just wont touch the tail. My rolling harriers are rock solid now and I have the confidence to perform them at any altitiude that will clear the wings from touching the grass. Its all because of the sim.
2. Start up high.
3. Start learning to fly in a harrier, the basic 3D posture. The planes flies real slow in a harrier.
You should have a rate set with about 45-70 degrees of throw on your elevator. Learn to just putter around with the nose pointed up at about 60 degrees. Its performed rather slowly. You hold pretty much full up high rate elevator all the time. 45 degrees minimum and control the angle with the throttle only. You control altitude and attitude with throttle. Steer with the rudder. Just use the ailerons to keep the wings level.
4. If you are really going to learn to fly 3D, Rudder and throttle are your best friends. Their purpose in 3D is a little different than normal flight. See #1,
5. Be careful as you ease the CG back. You can go too far and still fly. You dont want to go as far back as you can possibly go, you just want to go far enough back to get the plane to be more repsonsive to the elevator. Aft CG makes it a little easier to hover too. When you get it right, the plane wont want to fall over in a hover since the weight is down towards the tail and your waterfalls will get really tight.
6. See #1.