I have definitely made a breakthrough on my TR's and slow rolling circles on this sim R/C Pilot, because just like you said when the belly would show to me I'd give the wrong rudder and elev, but I'm over that now. As usual, sims can teach a few reflexes but are no substitute for the real thing. I performed a TR in the sim yesterday with five revolutions. I started with just .75 revolution a week ago and have been increasing about one half rev a day so I know I'm getting somewhere.
If I can TR continuous I'd be the only member of my club. Even Dean, who just won Masters FAI pattern at the NATs I believe, bought a 3D CAP to learn 3D and he's just started working on his first rev.
I smoothed out my thottle stick on my 9CAP and it feels real nice. A piece of silicone fuel tubing on the ratchet spring still allows the drag to be set and now there's no ratchet. It will not go to 0% without holding it down, it goes to 1% without that last ratchet detent but it sort of functions as an idle-down when I pull it down on landing. I've been thinking about making a rubber bumper on the low side of my TX stick just for that reason even though the 9CAP has an Idle Down feature anyway, it sure is nice to get the idle lower sometimes just by pulling the stick down a little harder. The throttle cut feature ought to reduce the number of high idle landings from now on though, as I will not be touching the idle setting between flights. I fly from a rather short field. The grass runway itself is long enough but it has a 15' rise from the middle to either end, so if I go a little bit too far past the apex of this runway I will glide 3x further than I would in a level runway. It's possible to land uphill, downhill, or level all in the same day. One side has power lines 50yds from the end, the other side has a house 100 yds away at the end of the runway,