ORIGINAL: gaRCfield
I agree that I need to learn how to fly the plane without 'cheating', and I intend on it. But I'm going to a competition next weekend, and I know 90% of the pilot's I'll be competing against will have these things mixed out of their planes with their radios.
This is called "rationalizing". You are trying to justify the fact that you want to use the radio to make up for skills you don't have. Of course you are free to do what you want as it's your plane after all. But I'll tell you this much. If you start relying on the radio now to do this stuff and not learn how to do it properly yourself, you never will learn how to fly it. I don't know how many times I have seen somebody with pure skill totally embarras somebody that is using a lot of technology to try to compensate.
You can make the mix in a radio and you may find out that you're going to be worse off relying on it than you would your own skills and fingers. Like I said earlier on, you need to know WHEN and HOW MUCH of a control to put in during a maneuver such as a slow roll. You may very well find that when you rely on the radio the maneuver will actually look worse off than if you had learned to properly do it with your fingers.
As I said, you are free to do what you want, but in my opinion you would be better off relaxing and learning to properly fly instead of trying to start competing just weeks after you have soloed.
Ken