This thread may be dead as I have not heard from it for a while but I will throw this out for general input.

I have been having problems getting consistant landings on a VK Nieuport 17 that is a 56 inch wingspan (1/6th scale) Saito .56 for power swinging a 13x5 wooden prop.

Speaking to the people at DJ Aerotech who sell a Fokker triplane and Sopwith Camel kit (Electric) I got the advise to bring the model in under about 50% throttle doing a rolling landing and keep the tail up as log as possible by reducing power to around 1/4 after the tail falls

Their logic was that he wing and large prop blanket the tail once you go to idle and let the tail down.

I tried it this last weekend and had great results. I will try again next weekend to see if it was just a fluke