Thanks for the reply Harry. Thinking about it, you are right. I was guilty of all three sins that you mentioned. I was trying to play at when to throttle back as to time it right so the plane was coming down onto the deck where I wanted it. I was using the turns on final to loose altitude, and was not holding up my nose. Therefore, of course I was building up speed, and it was ballooning up when I straightened out off that final turn when I tried to give it some up elevator. The result was a bunch of go-arounds as the plane cruised by me still 50 foot up, and a couple of landings way down the runway, with a power-slide at the end to keep it out of the hay field. This morning I was trying to dive it down to the deck to loose altitude, and then crank up the elevator. Yep you nailed it, it was a balloon ride to the deck. I tell you though, when I did get it right, it sure did look and feel good all the way in.

Why does it sound so easy when I read about it and talk to people, and it is a whole other ballgame when the knees are shaking and the plane is coming toward you on final!

All right, it sounds like my next drill is to play with chopping the power and slowly inching up the elevator to slow it down. I will work on drills at two mistakes high and play with the way it looks and feels. Too bad it is back to work on monday ... I am having way too much fun with this to let something like work interfere!!!!! I had absolutely no idea that this hobby would be such an obsession ... I thought that fishing was bad!

Thanks again for your help.

Bo