All the guys who fly pattern at our club have a funfly plane of some description and we only ever brought them out at the christmas party. Once I learned how to set up a hovering plane properly, I won't say it happened instantly but I found it wasn't as hard as I thought. Then a week later I spotted a technique which was basically don't try to hover just fly vertically in a straight line slowly, this gives you the feeling of the elevator rudder and more importantly the throttle. The next day I tried it, whithin six flights I had gone from being able to point the nose skywards for a few seconds to really controlling it in a hover. I have had 141 flights since april before then I had 22 in nearly three years, I can now move the plane wherever I want and from any direction. All it takes is practice but more importantly a plan of how you are going to improve your skills.