Nathan, I'm no where near being an instructor, but I'll pass along a couple things that may or may not help. First, when I started, there was another guy that had been training for about three months. He had a lot of experience in full size, but the model was not going well for him. My instructor told me I would have my wings firs, and I did, but it was a long process. Aftere he finally soloed, he wa progessing along at a much faster rate. I was talking to his instructor one day and commented on this. What was happining was he had perty much a one track mind. If he was listening to the instructor, he couldn't fly the plane. The instructor got fed up one day and just told him to fly it by himself, and he did. Turned out to be a fairly good pilot to. Don't know if this applies to your student or not.

The other thing is Expo. My instructor recommended a lot of Expo for me, I was one of your guy who banged the sticks. I was out to the field today trying to fly a plane I flew for a while last year. I had a number of issues after the repairs and it looked today as if I had solved the major problems, except the plane was twitchy on the ailerons. It turns out I had 35% expo on them and they just wouldn't do much of anything until I was almost mid way through the travel. No response, no response, bang to much response. I brougt it down and dialed in 65% and things went much smoother. I may even try cranking it up some more. I think I've been flying with too soft controls. Could it by your students TX is set up soft and his simulator isn't. You may try hardening up the controls and see how that works. Not more, just more sensitive.

Don