These posts remind me of a time back around 1980 at a contest at Anacosta NAS outside of Washington, D.C.. Mr. Cartier and I were flying a Fast Combat match and being the good flier that he is I was having a hard time trying to get him off of my tail. I was flying my own single boom design with Phil's foam wing cores and modified Fox MKIII's. Well, to my surprise ( and Phil's ) I pulled an outside at a much lower than usual altitude to finally get away from him and win the match. I believe there were grass stains on my prop tips after that one. Not sure that Phil will remember this one but it is one match that I haven't forgotten.
More to the point of these posts, where the Center of Gravity is on the airplane has a lot to do with how much stabilator deflection you need to have. Most fliers seem to like their airplanes set up differently than others do. I think the older we get we like to slow the controls DOWN ( not as sensitive as we had them when we were younger ! ). I like to tell people "The older I get the better I was ".
Dick Tyndall