Hi Kiddo:

If I can learn to hover and do rolling circles at 73, you sure as heck can. Do you have a simulator? If so work with it until you can keep it nose up for 60 seconds or so. Be sure your surfaces move at least to the minimum recommendations, usually 45%. You should be able to pull the bird up from knife edge flight into a hover. If you cant get into a hover attitude from say 45% from the horizontal, your CG is too far foreard or your rudder movement is inadequate, or not strong enough servo wise, or all of those. Could also be a poor 3D bird. If other guys at the field can hover this bird, you need to work on the airframe and practice, practice, practice. Get a little help from the club 3D hot dog and let him fly your plane. At this stage for me, if a plane can not do knife edge loops, its just worth my time. Foamys are not a bad learning tool, in fact you may find you taking them out to the field rather than the standard glow or gass. The Airfoilz edge 540 or Tribute 3D will almost hover themselves when set up correctly, and they are easy to set up. I find myself sticking two or three electrics in the back of the wagon rather than carting out the big heavy gasser or glow birds. More fun to fly, fly better and as long and around $70.00 rather than $700. if my thumbs have a attack of stupid. ENJOY