Don,

I'm not extremely familair with all the features of the Eagle, but I can tell that you changed the wire landing gear and added struts and wheel pants, and changed it from tricycle landing gear to a tail dragger. Is the wingspan wider, or does it just look like it in the picture?

Thanks for the reminder to run it a little rich. I'll be sure to get some pointers on that other than just what I've read about it. My instructor said I'll do maybe a hundred landings before I'm done training. I was glad he told me that because even the guys flying solos are sometimes having a hard time making good landing every time. My instructor lands like a professional. He is the club's official instructor and is an instructor for a commercial airline as well. After 9-11 he took a leave of absence for a few years and is attending college about 35 miles form here. One of the first things I asked him to do was show me a stall. I wnated to see how slow it would fly rather than how fast it would go. ha

Way down here we get snow once about every 2 or 3 years, but we have plenty of water to land on. I think I'll need a lot of landings under my belt before I get brave enough to try lake landings.

eald