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If you hookup with a really good pilot you will learn that you cant compete if you dont REALLY know how to trim a plane. You can buy the most expensive pattern plane in the world and if it isnt trimmed out right you are going to have a tough time being competitive. I dont care who you are.

Good pilots can fly most any plane,, but can only fly a plane as well as it is trimmed out.

You will quickly see how big of a difference 1/2degree makes when you start trying to perfect a pattern plane and trim out all the bad tendencies. Its a CONTINUOUS never ending effort.