Hello Michel,

congrats to your succesful maiden. I'm also flying a SM Hawk but the old version. Can you tell us the weight of the bird and the CG. I'm also interested to know if you raise the ailerons on the landing pattern to allow a slower approach. I will try this during the next flight. It would be fine to see a video, especially landing. I'm flying on a grass lane and take off with flaps is uneventful and looks very scale.
My bird seems not to slow down as fast as yours does. I need to fly a very wide landing pattern to slow it down. Full flaps is applied on the final. Also my bird doesn't like any AOA when flying slow, may be it's a matter of CG?
But, as you say, flying the bird is just fun!

Looking forward to your answeres and regards from Germany

Andreas