Attitude flying and cyclic manipulation
If you’re not familiar, the attitude picture is what you see when you look out from the cockpit with the cockpit in the foreground measured visually against the background outside. You are aiming to set a ‘picture’. For example, if you’re drifting backwards, look at your attitude picture and lower the nose slightly to a new picture; you have then established a new attitude.
The opposite of this technique is seeing that you are drifting back, so gently increase forward cyclic displacement until the movement stops. If you try that with a teetering head system like the Huey, by the time you stop the aft travel the main rotor is already trying to take you forward over the ground. It will feel like your control inputs are delayed and even when you think it’s more comfortable it is likely that you will hover in a circular pattern over the ground = PIOs, or Pilot Induced Oscillations.
Setting the attitude makes all the difference in the Huey.
Cyclic manipulation - you do not want to move and hold the cyclic in one position in the hover to maintain the hover. You want a small, steady displacement; a ‘wiggle’ at a cadence of 1-2-3, 1-2-3 like a dance! The actual displacement is very small (will vary with the controller you’re using too). With a full length Virpil Cyclic the displacement I use is about 5-10mm. Not much! This value will also vary with custom control curves. The important thing to note is the technique though.
Do not react directly to movement over the ground. Instead, note that movement and adjust the attitude (picture) accordingly using the cyclic ‘dance’ 1-2-3
Note that using this dance method on a semi-rigid head rotor system like the H125 will spill the lift from the main rotor. Think of your effective rotor wash in the hover as a full bucket of water. Slopping the controls around like a Huey will spill some lift. Being smooth on the controls in this case can mean a couple of hundred pounds of uplift difference between a good pilot and a pilot using a teetering head technique.
Hope that helps