Thanks for the replies guys. I weighed mine last night on a digital scale and she was 31+ lbs. with a full UAT. I have a Skymaster cockpit with one pilot. The cockpit/canopy weighs in at 2 lbs 5 oz. I'm sure when I initially set the plane up, I set it at the 190mm mark. It landed fine and inspired confidence. After that, I added lights, lighting board, and a 4cell Ni-Cd for the lights. I took out a little lead in the nose to compensate for the equipment but never re-balanced it.

Flew it at the First in Flight rally in NC at the end of May and had very good landings with it. At the beginning of July at Kentucky Jets I decided to pull out a little more nose weight as I thought It might have been nose heavy due to the amount of down elevator needed for inverted flight. It wasn't much weight but that's when I had a few not so pretty landings and one came to a stop sideways which caused the tire on one of the mains to come off the rim. After getting the tire back on, I didn't check the gear for proper operation on the ground and the next flight I was only able to get the nose and one main down. Couldn't get them to go back up and try a belly landing. That ended with a skid off the runway with the wing impaling itself on a landing light. That repair added some weight in front of the CG.

I've since flown it on two outings for a total of maybe six flights and still don't feel it's as good as it was when I first maidened it. I think some of this problem may be mental. Are most of you balancing the plane upright or inverted? I'm asking because my pal was pointing out today that it's more accurate to get the measurement on the bottom of the wing than the top as the curved intakes can throw it off. I'm putting the CG back to 190 and hopefully will get to fly it before the cold weather comes.