Wayne,

I just completed my Atlantis a couple of weeks ago.........it flys great!

Mine came with a few pieces of trim that were sticky-backed "Pepto Bismol" pink! If you have any of the stick-on covering or trim, do not try to use your covering iron on it with normal heat. It is probably a PVC material and will melt! The rest of the covering on mine was very good, takes the heat very well and shrinks up tight. I took the few pieces of trim that was PVC off the plane before I flew it.

All the screws that come with the kit are very light and soft and should be discarded. I even removed the screws from the motor mount and replaced them with good socket head bolts.

The pushrod dowels were curved....I suggest using Ny-rod/Golden-rod or something similar, especially on the split elevator. If you use the suggested way to hook up the split elevator with the single pushrod, there will be a lot of side-to-side movement allowing the elevator halves to move independently of each other.

And the last but most important thing is that they state that the CG should be 140mm from the leading edge at the fuselage. This is WAY too far back! I set my CG at 125mm (about 30% MAC), and it flys very well there. In order to achieve this I mounted the servo plate about 1 1/2 inches forward of the former which is at the T/E of the wing.

I put the new Magnum XLS .52 2C engine in this plane and it has enough power to pull the Atlantis vertically out of site. I find myself flying this plane at about 1/2 throttle most of the time using full throttle only for take offs and vertical up-lines. A regular .40 would fly this plane quite fast. I am really pleased with this airplane, and since I only paid $85 US for it, is icing on the cake.

Hope you enjoy yours as much!

Gary