I like to fly with very little stick pressure. I want to concentrate on the model and the shape, not how much force feedback I'm getting.
There are very model's out there setup this way.. Howard has one of them..
I also fly with a small amount of "stick pressure" however it is near impossible to fly without stick pressure, You simply cannot keep the plane on track in the rounds and other maneuvers with corners are very very hard to come out of flat.
I setup several ships with as little stick pressure as I could get, by running rearward CGs and pulling the hande overhang way back to my hand. These just go off at angles that you seem to have no control over...sort of like driving a car in reverse at 60 mph.
Then just by adding overhang to the handle the planes would come back and groove, turn flat, come out of corners flat and at 90 degrees, and track in the rounds without trying to tighten up by themselves...marked improvement.
Also with the extremely low pressure setups wind was impossible to fly in, the plane were just too hard to keep on track and fly thru corners with proper exits.
The power steering feel made it too hard to neutralize controls after the end of the maneuvers and in the corners or intersections.
I will also say that some who have told me their planes had no stick pressure...when I flew them ,they all had much more than I fly with.
Stick pressure ,when setup right will have just enough to sort of self neutralize the plane, and as we all know if it is too heavy on the pressure (ie too much overhang) you cannot turn the ship in high winds, and this is the cause of many flying into Terra firma.
Randy