My Advance is pretty tame to fly, and I assume the Pulse is similar. Response isn't twitchy even on high rates.

Mine is set up with 4s 3300 on the e power 32 and the recommended JR servos. Like that the battery has to be hanging as far off the back of the battery tray as it will go to balance.

It also has a relatively high stall speed, and will drop a wing tip. If you did that a few feet off the ground on an approach you would get a spectacular cartwheel.

On the first flight I'd get up to safe altitude and spend some time reducing power while adding up elevator to keep it flying level, until it stalls. You will get a feel for how the plane acts when it is on the edge, and for how fast you want to shoot an approach.

If I were to do it again I think a 25 motor on 3 cells would be plenty of power, and could save some weight. Also I'd have gone for a Tacon Bigfoot or other cheap motor, and I'd probably also use cheaper servos- though I understand you may have to do a little trimming or sanding to get most other servos to fit.