Absolutely the commonly advised position for landing gear geometry when positioning taildragger configured landing gear is roughly with the center of the footprint even with the leading edge.

Sometimes however due to aspect ratio and wing planforms (taper configuration) This may not be an ideal location and there are varables. This is a minor point though and going the ball park location (leading edge is normally fine).

What I wanted to point out Acdii are the effects of this location and what happens when its to far forward or to the rear just for the information.

First I cringe when I see folks actually changeing the CG of the airplane just to suit the gear location and this which I think has already been covered in this thread is a hugh mistake, what happens is you not only get an airplane with poor ground handling but also one that flys poorly in the air.

So CG should never be changed to suit the landing gear instead if any conversions are made the gear position should be changed to suit the known good CG.

What happens if the landing gear is to far forward? The airplane will be difficult to take off because it will want to swap ends while on the ground no matter what, this because the CG is so far aft of the wheel footprint. In addition this long lever formed by the CG gear footprint will cause all but the most perfect landings to bounce or become uncontrollable crowhopping. The kind of landings I call 'Boingers' even the most skilled will have difficulty with this situation.

Not to what happens when the gear is to far aft and I will continue this in another post in a few moments to avoid being timed out, sorry.

John