Hi All!

Well, I'm having a ball flying my new Wild Hare Edge 540, especially after getting the G-62 to idle properly and not quit in the air!!! BTW, that was cured by rebuilding the carburetor. The only problem I'm having now is getting used to the pitch sensitivity of the airplane particularly when landing! The problem I am having is that everytime I apply a little bit of "UP" elevator to slow the decent of the airplane (I'm not talking about the "flair", but much earlier in the approach), the plane really wants to "balloon" up and gain a lot of altitude. Of course, I'm using low rates for landing, but that doesn't seem to be enough! Would using exponential on the elevator help this problem? I'm new to this, so I'm not sure if exponential is intended to decrease sensitivity near the center of the elevator travel (which I think I want), or near the endpoints of the elevator travel? Someone at the field arbitrarily said "add 8 ounces of weight to the nose", but I'm suspect of that advice without some more input! This may just be inexperience, so other possibilities are that I just just learn to live with it, or create a set of "landing" rates which are lower than my current "low" rates. What do you guys think is the best solution??

Thanks,

John