RE: C-130 items
Jim did you say you deploy full flaps for touch-n-go take-off? That's against all i've been taught in full scale operation.... ie small private planes. If you have half flaps on final seems you should be leaving them at that position, and as speed builds up start retracting the flaps. But if thats what works guess you know your plane well enough to keep it going. Flaps at full deployment cause a lot of drag as opposed to lift, unless you have the fowler flaps that the full size C-130 has, which add to the total wing area too. Just my 2 pennies.
Pete