Hi everyone,
I've just started flying a New Rookie II; mine is the "Pinky" scheme and has a JetCat P-80 with fixed gear (KISS). I am really pleased with it. It flies and looks terrific.
I set it up with the canards on the flap channel, with elevator mixed in all the time.
I have the stock thrust vectoring slaved to the elevator but switched so that I have it in for take off and landing and out at high speed.
I have the airbrake on a switch, which brings it down about 85 degrees.
I have mixed the airbrake into the canard, so that deploying airbrake also flips the canard about 60 degrees leading edge UP.
Without airbrake I get nice slow flypasts on idle throttle, but it is hard to land.
With the underside airbrake plus canard airbrake I get loads of drag for nice steep, controllable, predictable approaches with enough power in the elevons and thrust vector for flaring out. It needs a little down trim to overcome the up trim from the canards.

STALLING
Yes, the Rookie will stall, and lock in quite stable, and it takes a lot to get it out. Down elevator with canard and thrust vector and opening the throttle gets it out of an upright stall OK.
Today I got it into an inverted stall and none of that helped. ONLY when I flipped the airbrake switch did it fly out of the inverted stall.
How do the rest of you manage with upright/inverted stalling and spinning?
Who else uses the canard airbrake?
Alasdair