Lay on the maite like skimming bed mesh in spat flat as poss. When just starting to matt, flick or easier to spray whole lift with hose on mist or light spray. Cross trowel with orange sponge float to leave sponged but no start or stop marks or lines at all. Next morn or late afternoon spat flat to crush sponged finish down a bit. Apply second wetter coat as tight as poss only to cover sponge texture with 1mm or so. As its so thin and coat underneath has dried, it takes no time to pick up so that you can wet and trowel like skimming to as flat as needed depending on the dpr grain.
1.8mm coarse is enough to cover the sponged 1 coat of maite if needed. 1mm needs to be 2 coats and as above. 0.5mm needs to be pretty much a skimmed wall with no blemishes. When you learn how maite behaves you can get it mint and will defo go for the smallest grain as they go much further and is usually what the customer wants anyway(flat & smooth).