Well,
After my flights today I have some new insites. First of all, I have been running apfd at 120 sim speed. I cranked it back to 100% and the flight characteristics felt closer. While I'm sure 120% is better for 3d training, I think 100% is better for basic trainer pattern flying. Secondly, turns to the left still seem a LOT harder then to the right. At one point today, I had the stick fully deflected to the left and the plane was not rolling. I had to bunt the nose a bit to induce the plane to roll. Was hard to do, cause I kinda ingrained turn with up elevator. I'm still not quite sure y bunting helped gettin the plane to roll. Makes sense in a way on a instinctual level, but not quite on a mental level yet. The next thing I learn, after I got comfy enough with the tx in my hand to experiment with adding a bit of rudder in, is that rudder helps a HUGE amount on gettin a good turn out of a trainer. After I started coordinating my turns, a whole lot of tension about getting the plane to turn left vanished. Just a little rudder stick in turn actually had me applying opposite aileron to keep the plane in a stable bank. The rudder is my friend. lol. I'm gonna see if I can get someone to help me play with the ailerons to get them to have more power then they do. I reallly dislike the feeling of applying full left aileron and the plane not wanting to bank out of straight. Although a little rudder added in seems to solve the problem quite nicely. Also, it seems that after the plane has enter'd into a certain amount of bank, the ailerons gain more effectiveness in increasing the bank. It's just gettin it out of the level flight that seems tricky. I am assuming this is a effect of the dihedral built into a wing. Anyways, this is my synops of my thoughts on my first time with the tx in hand
-Joh

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Just thought of one ohter thing. Next chance I get to go up, I hope to express some wish to work the throttle stick a little more. I've grown quite accustomed to using the throttle extensivly in the sim, but I felt today like I should leave it where it was. However, when entering a steep bank, I instincts where saying increase the throttle a bit so you can ease off the elevator a bit, but my mind was saying, leave the throttle where the instructor had it. A bit throught the flight when I was bunting the nose to keep it level when in straight flight, the instructor said feel free to pull off the throttle a bit if u feel it's climbing to much, but I was a bit nervous about changing to much. My next time up I will let the instrutor know I would like to manipulate the throttle a bit more for straight and level and turns.
-John