ORIGINAL: MountaineerFan36

I took a vacation day today for the express purpose of spending the entire day at the field. Unfortunately thunderstorms moved in this afternoon and I had to pack up shop a bit early.

I've completely stripped off all the "training" equipment that came with the Nexstar (the airbrake flaps and thingamajigs on the wing tips) and have disconnected the AFS system. I did notice that I had to retrim the elevator significantly post removal of the flaps. Per the advice posted here in various forms, I spent pretty much the entire morning doing touch and go landings. I probably went through about 1/2 gallon of fuel doing touch and goes! I'm still not "greasing" every landing, and there was a crosswind that occasionally gave me some fits, but all in all I had a pretty succesful morning. I did get tired of going out to the middle of the field to retrieve my plane when I had a not so good landing, and began paying particularly close attention to when I would flare the Nexstar. One other adjustment I made was I didn't hesitate to abort the landing and bring it in for another try, whereas in previous attempts, I would simply force the landing which invariably meant the prop struck the ground, the engine would stop and I had to go out and retrieve the Nexstar. Call me lazy, but it is much nicer to drive her back than to carry her back.

Quick question. I'm not sure if this is a trim issue or normal, but when I try to do rudder turns the wing tends to drop into the turn quite a bit. In fact, a spectator could probably not tell the difference between one of my rudder turns or an ailearon turn. I even programmed a rudder/aileraon mix into my radio and even with many adjustments, I still could not get the Nexstar to do a flat rudder turn. Am I missing something?

Joe