Peter,

Yes, at these settings it is carrying a little down trim (about 1mm elevator relative to stab). I should have included that bit -- well reminded!!

I have been doing a bit of work on wing versus motor incidence and I am pretty comfortable that the +0.25 wing relative to motor is right on the up/down test. Greater incidence on the wing and it (predictably) pulls to canopy on the up line, and opposite if wing is lower. Over the next few flights I will experiment with the CofG in case it makes a difference to trim -- my sense is it won't.

I am happy with it in flight -- but I would admit I haven't had a good hard 'judges' look in level flight. From recollection it didn't look to be flying either nose up or down on the flat bits (like the long inverted line from the cuban 8 to the stall turn in Expert/P05). And nobody laughed at it or complained at Doncaster on Sunday (always a good sign)!! Fuz also seems to sit straight through the rolls -- but I have been thinking more about rudder throw/expo when doing them.

So after a few more flights I will likely get to which is easier to fix -- move the stab anti-rotation pins a fraction, of change downthrust (and wing incidence).

And one more (potential) tip -- the combination of quite thin underacrriage legs where wheel bolts go through, and the rounded legs against the spats, create a risk that a clump of grass or something equivalent can get caught in the gap and tear the wheel bolt out of the leg - - which causes the plane to stop abruptly as the leg digs into the strip. Fortunately mine was almost stopped when I discovered this so damage was minor. I shortened the legs a fraction to get a more solid area for the wheel bolt, and put a fillet in to seal between leg and spat that grass cannot catch in (and recognised I hadn't thought of this before because Bolly legs/spats interlock so this can't happen)

And for those thinking about right thrust, I am using APC 17 x 12 prop.

David