CTDave I too had most problems with earth. Telemaster is alot easier than my 4 * to land but the 4* itself is pleasure to fly. Sometimes it's hard to pick one to take. Do you have a sim, got REFEX for my son but I find Iam on it more than him. Not good with distance point of view but help with dumm thumbs. Also on slow stall screw ups the sim does a good job. Mostly just more comferable on flight linenow.
On telemaster I also took 50% of dihedral out, couple inches on one side. If I remember right the incedent on stab was off, read this somewhere when I checked mine it gave too much down so plane would balloon up. Set it to zero flat with bottom of wing. Everyone who flies it says its better than others so can'nt say if that was why.
In the process of covering a NOBLER this so far is my hardest build. Trying to get done before fall. Hee Hee