ORIGINAL: Stew99
I vote to stay with what you have until you are forced to change it. Add as much lead to the nose as you need for the initial flights and then start taking it out until the plane flies like you want it to. You may find it is not really as tailheavy as you thought. Only when you have established the cg position for your style of flying would I consider any kind of surgery on the plane to make it lighter.
Thanks Stew.... that sounds like a good option. I'm basing CG points on others that have flown the funtana 90 and what they were comfortable with.
The general consensus is that the recommended CG in the manual @ 7 1/4 is too tailheavy for most.
Maybe I'll end up saving myself some time if I could fly the plane as is.
The only problem is that to get to 7 1/4 CG, I had to have the battery, throttle servo, and receiver all in the nose.
Hopefully, I could fly it at this CG. If not, I'll going to have to operate.