I was watching my daughter play Minecraft on the XBOX 360 and she was flying around objects. I took the controls and realized that you can set the control to "SouthPaw", the joysticks are just like the Phantom 2 Vision+ controller (except for elevation).

I have been practicing with the Phantom 2 to fly around objects and keep the video smooth and fluid which is hard to do.  I can now do this indoors with the XBox with the same results.  Set your elevation and practice  forward, reverse, left, right and turning just like the Phantom controller.

This should get me proficient a lot faster?

Even better:  Using two controllers set one of the views as what you would see of the quad from the ground and the other would be the view from the iPhone (camera).   Now you can fly the quad (object) around viewing it as you would from the ground.  (my daughter changed the object to more resemble a quad copter)  [See Video:  http://youtu.be/BMByDSWemd4]

Have a look at aeroSIm, has some good training programs