This should be a great thread, I look forward to reading more.

About the right thrust added....this is a very personal thing. I have found that as you add more right thrust to improve uplines and positive manuevers the negative stuff suffers. There will always be a compramise based on how the pilot likes the airplane to feel. I am horrible with the rudder for inverted entries so I like a bit less right thrust to help so I am normally set-up to hold a little right in uplines and a bit more for pulls but only a little left is required for negative manuevers.

Colin.