I've got the 120 size with a Valley View 20 gasser. Using a single 2500 LiFe pack and RcExl BEC igntion kill for a single battery setup. AUW 10# with no fuel. I find the plane to be a very enjoyable flier; I get very good, but not unlimited, vertical with a Xoar 17x6. The plane will do very nice upright flat spins, along with all the normal "scale" type maneuvers. Mine actually takes of and lands very nicely at pretty slow speeds. It will stall and drop a wing, much like the smaller .46size Phoenix Decathlon I had before, but this one is a little more forgiving than that plane.

I too ripped out the landing gear block on a not-very-ruff bouncer landing; it came out so clean, it didn't even rip the covering. Very little glue or support there. I didn't want to remove covering, so I put a layer of glass cloth all throughout the U-channel of the gear area--been holding so far!