Hi, Have a 33% Waco YMF5 RCS 215 for power. Down thrust is about 1.5 degrees. Right is about 2 Degrees. 32-12 prop 46 pounds flying weight.
Here is my question. I balanced plane tanks empty, all well there. However I have a 1500 cc gas tank and a 1000cc smoke oil tank. I was out flying it today with a well experianced flyer. Gas tank was about 75% full, smoke tank was maybe 25 % full. Plane was a load to handel till we put a bit of up trim at cruise rpm. After makeing a couple passes down runway to get the feel for how the approach should set up my instructor got her down on the third pass. Now he bounced it just a bit.
While discussing the flight some of the "other" pilots noticed that my elevators were trimed with some up in them (duh) they said I needed to take out some of the down thrust so that the plane would fly level without the trim in there. And not float so bad on landing. I say the up trim was needed to counter the large fuel load and the plane would need less up trim once some of the fuel burned off. ( I only used less than a quarter of a tank on a fifteen minute flight}
Should I just leave the down thrust as is or change it? I say leave it alone as I can always reduce up trim as fuel is burned off. But what do you that know think?

Buy the way I feel that the reason it was such a floater was two things, 1 is idl trim was set a bit high and the other was the wind coming down the runway about 10-15 mph. Oh and one other thing...should I use the 32-8 prop instead of the 32-12?
Any input from you folks would really help me out.
Thanks
Steve