<div><font face="Verdana" size="2">harryangus</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Verdana" size="2">When you fly the model for the first time and after you climb to a reasonable altitude, set the throttle to about half (or at whatever speed seems to be a comfortable cruise speed).  Wait ten or fifteen seconds until the plane seems to settle down into a stable configuration.  If it climbs or descends, use the trim on the transmitter to adjust toward level flight.  Repeat this process until the plane establishes level flight.  Once you have established the trim setting for level flight, do not adjust the trim setting any more.  Go ahead and land.  After landing, and before turning off your radio, carefully observe or measure the elevator deflection.  Then you can turn your radio off.  You may have to adjust the clevis on the elevator control rod either in or out in order to raise or lower the elevator position to match what you have seen after your flight.  It shouldn’t take much adjustment either way.  Re-attach the clevis and go make a test flight.  Make as many test flights as you need to get the plane to fly the way you want it to.  All of this assumes that the construction and balance of the model is pretty close to the plans.</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Make sure that you have built and balanced the model per plans.  There will be lots of guys at the field who can look at your set-up and give you advice.  Listen to all of them and make your own decisions about your model.  You will hear theories about doing this and then that – try these theories out and see what happens.  But most important, make this plane fly the way that  you want it to fly and then go have fun boring holes in the sky.</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Blue Skies</font></div><div><font face="Verdana" size="2">Charles</font></div>