Hey everyone.

I'm having a heck of a time converting a plane to v-tail. I used autocad to figure out the current area of the vertical and horziontal stabs (with and w/o control surfaces) and when I add everything up and try to size a v-tail for it, the porportion of tail to wing visually is rediculous. The tail looks huge on the plane. I look at pictures of other v-tail gliders and the tails dont look much larger than the elevator would look normally.

I've read somewhere on the forums that you can simply size the elevator 20% bigger and that works too. Anyone have any luck with this?

I'm this close ----> <----- to abandoning the v-tail idea, but I really am stubborn to making it work!

Thanks in advance!
Rico