RE: kit building, tail vs nose weight
G'day
No "piece-o-cake". Ho Ho Ho. Very punny indeed.
When I turned up with my first Butterfly, one of the older members asked whether is was a Piece-O-Cake which is its little .049 powered sibling. When he found it was a Butterfly he was immediately impressed and told me that I had a "real aeroplane". He then helped me with the first flight and later taught me how to fly it as a glider. Great days.
My actual instructor hated it. Too slow. He liked his Thunder Tiger Eagle 40 with a Rossi 60 in it. As a result, he kept steering me away from planes like the Kadet Senior (which I eventually found for my self) to things that he liked to fly but I could not fly. So I spent quite a while flying the Butterfly and building up my confidence. Then I found the Kadet Senior and I was off.
Cheers
Mike in Oz