Check this thread.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_10...tm.htm#1000160

or do a search for great planes giles

Lots of great info on this plane. And the guys above are probably right about the snap being due to too much elevator, there are about 100 warnings in this thread about the elevator settings. I have yet to get mine off the ground, watched it flown by a great pilot in Vegas, but my skills are just getting to the point where I'm getting her ready to fly in the next 30 days.