Thanks RCKen, that would have been my guess, although i have as noted above ,have a few state the reverse,
Being a retread so to speak , been out of RC since 98 ( 2m gliders ) and out of powered RC since 76 i did have to relearn a lot, especially coming back from Gliders ( but this helped)was able to solo out after 4 flights with an instructor, The Plane in question is the T-34 ePTS wth Wing Droops, Flaps where set up to be operational. Now the instructor never bothered with the flaps so i have learned this plane with Flaps up. and generally fly @approx 1/2 throttle.

Just practicing straight and level flight in and out of the pattern right now, which was when i first tried dropping the flaps.

Now thePlane i purchesed from another club member so all the settings where progrmmed into the DX-7 ahead of me.The Nose downattitude i have observedfrom this plane is due tothe programming ( i assume ) as it isset to a value of 80 down with full faps but was set to 23 up at half flaps.
Howeverishould also note it was initialy tail heavywhenI trimmed i out.

I have began altering the settingsas i become more comfortablewith it ( only around 4 flights on my own so far ).