The giles is not known as a heavy 3d airplane but the WH G202 will hover, torque roll etc. with the best of them. It is exceedingly good at anything which can be considered tumbling, waterfalls, tip spins, etc. It's an excellent 3d airplane.

This "short coupled" thing is just, well, wrong.

The full scale G202 has a fuselage length of 240" and a wingspan of 264". That makes the fuselage 91% of the wing span.

A full scale Edge 540T or an Extra 300L has a wingspan of 303" and a fuse length of 264". THat makes their fuse 87% of the wing.

So in fact the Giles has a proportionally longer fuselage than an Extra or Edge.

Someone once said they are short coupled and since then everybody repeats it. Taint so.

TF