Originally Posted by Gary Arthur

I have been flying the Hawk with my CG at 198 and it has been awsome!!! Flies great and lands at a walking pace.

When I first tried it here, I thought maybe I was pushing it too much but yesterday I had an interesting thing happen.

I usually put my nose weight in with GOOP so if I need to take it out, I soak it with gas and the goop lets go. Well I had a fuel leak and the goop softened. During my take off I saw something round rolling on the gound. At first I thought maybe a tire, but all tires were there. My lead nose weight fell out!!!! I did the entire flight with 1 1/4 lbs out of the nose with my original CG at 198. I can only guess how far back my CG was for that flight. So I can assume the 198 is still conservative....