Check the tail incidense to the wing. Mine has a bunch of negative in the tail causing me to have to use a lot of down trim to keep it from climbing. I accidently turned a high speed low pass into a high speed touch and go and once the wheels were on the ground you can't believe how the tail came up in the air. I'm surprised it didn't do a ground loop! I will be cutting off the tail feathers soon and resetting them it is annoying me so much.

Glass the wing, you don't see it anyways, especially if you think you may add a bigger engine later.

Reinforce the landing gear.

Raise the wheel pants if you can....I do this on all of my planes and they seem to last longer than others do.

Get some extra yellow as there is an ugly gap between the cockpit and the fusulage. I installed a piece of covered balsa to make it look presentable. Also put some yellow over the red stripe on the fusulage where the number decals go. If you don't, the red stripe shows through and it's very noticable. By covering the stripe you only see a hint of it showing through the number decal.

Pin the cowl blocks with toothpicks unless you use another method of attachment. Every one of mine broke loose eventually. Once I pinned them I had no additional trouble. Of course, I have the .91 fx which I understand vibrates a bit more than the .61 fx.

Lastly, if I were to do it over again, I would attach the canopy before I glued the cockpit to the wing. It's fit wasn't the greatest and in hindsight I would have liked to put ply blocks around the inside and used cap screws to fasten it down.

This plane is a great flyer with no bad habits. This plane will land slow with no danger of snapping. The trouble is that it's so sleek it doesn't like to bleed off speed. If you come in shallower than normal it will slow down just fine. I had a bunch of trouble with the .91 which caused many dead sticks. With those big fat wings it floats like you wouldn't believe!! I have found that the tail can be very twitchy during taxi and had it come around unexpectedly once or twice.

Enjoy!!!

Jeff