John68 raises a good point, if you get up above 6 feet or so, try to either desend extremely slow, or move in any direction while decending, or you will lose control. The condition he describes is known as vortex ring state (VRS). I can explain it in higher detail, but I think I'd be better of just saying try and keep your hovers at about 3 to 4 feet when you start, that keeps you close enough to the ground to put it down at any time. Truth is when I learned to hover mine for the first time, I learned to hover at about 1 and a half feet off the ground, which is ground effect, and will make it more dificult to hover, but keeps you from breaking parts.