Firstly just for clarities sake his thread wasn't started as a critisism of the product which I bought it on the back of their reputation, the video's showing what they can do and testament of one of the guys who works at the LHS who's been flying since he was 8 and is an amasing pilot who has the yak and has flown the others. It was started as it's flying differently to what I've been used to up until now despite the other plane being highly aerobatic / 3D and me questioning if that was the characteristics of the plane and something I had to get used to or whether I'd set it up incorrectly especially as this is the 1st balsa plane I've had as the rest have all been foamies.

Many thanks to everbody for all their input - all extremely useful and even if nothing else can massively help in eliminating things and acting as a check list. I've checked the lateral balance and think it's spot on, the elevator and both halves move / deflect as one, the stabiliser may not be 100% level with the main wings but it's absolutely nominal and I would say my other plane has a FAR greater variance but doesn't affect that. CG I've had to move the battery so it's hanging half off the front of the battery tray and use a "seat belt" to secure it to get the CG just a tad in front of the 4.00" mark so again don' think it's that.

Most of the time I can fly it fine and have got through 10 flights so far doing slow rolls, inverted, some knife edge etc and despite being at the learrning stage on my 3rd battery got the best / longest harrier and prop hang I've ever managed to date but as I mentioned before it always seem to be when coming out of manoeuvres that have been heading straight down and then when I'm give up elevator to bring it back to level flight. As jrwilliams said "I'll need to use contant throttle and fly it through the manoeuvre" which I think is what it may well be and due to the other plane flying differently have got used to that but also where I've been cutting the throttle completely I do think the prop does have a strong braking affect (again which I'm not used to) which is exagerating the slow down combined with up elevator and even if I had a nominal amount of throttle coming out of the manoeuvre think it would probably counter it.

Once again many thanks to everyone for their help / input and nice to see Chris Hinson taking a caring interest in a customer and trying to help !!!!!! As soon as we get some better weather over here will be back out there and spend some more time getting used to it and I'll let you know how I get on !!!!!

Cheers Guys and happy flying !
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