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Old 03-22-2020, 12:20 PM
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Welcome to the forum.
A small point of etiquette: It's better to make new threads than to revive 12 year old ones. No biggie; it just makes it easier tor people to follow what's going on.

For your questions:
-Let's get the vocabulary words right. Incidence is the up/down angles of the wing and horizontal stabilizer as view from the side. What I think you were describing was getting the wing and stab level to each other. Yes, that can cause some sideways drifting.
-"down nose CG" may or may not be set properly. The right way is to mark the correct CG location on the wing based on calculations (Google rc plane CG calculator) and then balance the plane to be LEVEL at that spot. More beginners show up with terrible flying planes due to a sloppy CG setup than any other reason.
-What is the actual angle of your elevator deflection? 70% down doesn't tell us anything, because your radio may have been significantly up.