FYI I got some one on one from "the man" and have my Hawk flying better than ever now. I posted earlier about elevator sensitivity in the flare and I had been raising expo to combat it but with no luck. I finally decided high (up to 45%) expo on the elevator was just making the elevator more sensitive in the flare. So I went down to 20% (the lowest I had flown with before was 30%) and that gave me a better feel in the flare. In flight the all flying tail seems to be very smooth, no need for flight modes, for me 20% worked great all around. So at 28 flights I feel I have landings dialed. It is very easy to do a fairly tight descending turn to final only closing the throttle once in ground effect and getting a nice spot landing. Very scale like, "rolling off the perch" and all that. I have to be careful not to let the nose come up too much, with the CG at 197mm the Hawk will happily slow to a nose high crawl... You do not want your Hawk in a nose high crawl! Just let it settle with the nose wheel an inch or so higher than the mains.
Next up is the rudder to elevator mix. The problem here is that the Hawk needs so little rudder input in knife edge flight. I will next use a mix on a curve to give me the correct amount of down elevator (with rudder as master) at the 1/4 to 1/2 stick needed for knife edge and then flatten out (no more down elevator) as the rudder stick travels further. I cannot get over how well the Hawk flies in knife edge, it is really something. I'm not ready to do advanced IMAC style maneuvers with it but rolling circles, 1/2 loop with 1/2 roll, basically any rudder heavy maneuvers are easy.
What a plane!