Thanks for getting back to me GMoneyPIT , and by the way do you share the money it that pit ?

Now down to business, I never flew a pattern plane so the first flight for me was a shocker. I left the throws at the recommended settings for test flying. How you can fly this thing on high rates is beyond my imagination. I also dial in some expoential on the elevator and ailerons but I guess because of the way I fly I have to reduce the expo. In turns is seems as if my elevator is lacking and the nose drops more than I am comfortable with when flying. When I pulled back on the elevator stick about 75% down the nose jumped up and that was a weird feeling .

As far as the prop I am using a 12x8 on an OS .70 and never have to throttle up past 3/4 throttle. I did to see if the plane would pull straight up out of sight and it struggled . I believe this is due to the prop size. I am not sure if you read the instruction manual as far as trimming the plane , but my lord there is a lot of trimming to do which I will have to accomplish gradually.

I have to say I am not impressed yet but until I try different props I will not sell it or put it in the corner of my garage. I did a knife edge effortlessly but there was some coupling which I didn't like . The one thing I really like is the visibility of the plane. I flew it very high and was able to make out what it doing with out a problem .

The last complaint I have is the landing gear is a disaster. Can some one please show me or give me a link to a site that has better landing gear for this plane. Although the field was soft , I nosed over quite a few time even with full up elevator . A guy had a brio 10 rogging on the same day with out a problem

If any one cares I will post more progress on Sunday about performance with a different prop , maybe a 14 x 7 .

Thanks again.