I can keep it flying but cannot hover in one spot. It keeps drifting left or right. Any suggestions to stop the drifting? Thx

not trying to sound like a smartass...

But to fix it, steer the copter...

this is what happens in real life..its wind, not onny from the surrounding wind, but from the heli's own rotor-wash....

Hovering (to me) is the hardest part of flying helis

I have the same flight sim, I just started to use it here in the last month or less, I posted a very simular post here about 3 weeks ago [sm=drowning.gif]
I was told due to a lot of the rotor turning one direction causing the body to turn the other direction and then the tail spining as it does,IT ALL IN A NUT SHELL, causes it to drift to the side, Some days I can keep it in about a 20 foot area and others I am lucky to keep it in a 10 acre area. I acualy got mine to go into a inverted hover better than right side up the second or third time I used the sim [sm=tired.gif] I was so cheesed.[sm=biggrin.gif]
All I can say is keep practicing and get over the edge of the problem areas because thats when you begin to realy learn[sm=thumbup.gif][sm=sunsmiley.gif]sunny days to come .

I have tried to adjust the trim so that it would counter the natural forces how ever I found my self counter acting the adjustments with the stick in the end so it was nice for the first 30 seconds but then stick work came into play, I have tried switches and well, just played with it because the worse thing that can hapen right now is maybe knocking my soda off the PC table

Great luck and have fun with it, I imagine others that are more of an vetran at it may have some better ideas.

Thank you for the advice. I realize it is my flying that is causing this to happen, was wondering if it was possibly trim adjustments or does the heli have more of a tendency to drift if it is hovering real close to ground as opposed to trying to hover a foot or so off the ground. Thanks again for any advice....