How far North is "North Scotland" ? (I used to live up in Invergordon for a while - are you beyond that ?)

If you don't feel you can trust any of the other Scottish guys for whatever reason, and you need to go it alone... a few suggestions:

1) First take one of your current models, and program in a servo-slow function on your throttle. Set it to match whatever the throttle-up delay is on your chosen turbine (typically anything from 2 to 6 seconds). If you like, use a switch activated mix to turn the throttle-slow action on or off, so that if you get into trouble you can rveret to "normal" operation until you get yourself sorted out. Get used to flying with this delay (including doing lots of touch & goes and intentional go-arounds) before you find yourself facing this behaviour in your turbine.

2) Add ballast as necessary to whatever you are flying just now, to get the wing loading to match (or be close to) the loading that you will have in your turbine model, so that you get used to dealing with a higher stall speed (etc) if you're not already there...

3) Go find yourself an ENORMOUS runway to fly from, so that if you still get caught out with energy management re throttle lage etc, you have plenty of room to work with, instead of trying to get your model down in a relatively small spot. When I flew in Invergordon, we had two ex-WWII bomber airfields to fly from - I think one was near Alness and the other was near Dingwall (?) - RCU user HarryC could probably elaborate on their location if needed.

4) Think hard about it... you say the other guys you could trust are 10 hours away - is it worth 10 hrs of your time (or much less of theirs, if you fly one of them up to you) compared to possibly many more than 10 hours of repair / rebuild work (not to mention the money) if you end up re-kitting the aircraft ?

If you do still go it alone - good luck, and keep up advised of your progress.

Gordon