aircraft pitch seems way off when commanding flaps

Hi all after a few flightsd with this bird it seems to me that when the flap settings on the speed tape on the FD command a certain setting the aircraft is pitched way up (5-8 degrees) . for example on my last flight the spped tape showed a flaps 1 at roughly 180 knts but theaircraft was pitched well beyond 5 degrees before even coming close to the commanded flapsd settings. is this how the real aircraft flies or is there some way to correct the pitch attitiude of the plane??