Hey Jim,I hear ya loud and clear on those @#%*$*& Gee B** floats.Oh God......don't get me started on them![:@]Been there.....done that........many years ago and I'm dam glad to leave that behind as a distant memory.

I don't know for sure how my friend has his plane assembled but he swears up and down that he put it together to the letter.All I know for sure is that ABS and most common epoxies are a mismatch to begin with.They make stick together for the short while but eventually the epoxy will scab off of the ABS surface and let go.The screws should be attaching to something a bit more substantial than a plastic plug glued into white foam.He is also always breaking the float mounting gear all the time to.Nothing is repairable and he's always having to order replacement parts to keep it flying.He will have himself well trained if he ever decides to take up R/C heli's down the road.They also order spare parts frequently from the local hobby shop as well.

The standard Falcon float spreader bar is also way too narrow tracking in my opinion also.They could have expanded it quite a bit wider to add to the stability of the model on the water and in cross wind situations.When flying the Falcon Ready,I also thought it was a good candidate for a ventral fin at the bottom rear as the turns are not co-ordinated in the air.Rudder control is also sluggish to useless at best in the air also.It needs more fin/rudder surface area to offset the area forward of the CG generated by that portion of the floats.A ventral fin would improve this condition considerably.At least it would track much straighter.

The Falcon floats are a very efficient design on the bottom side and they do plane well on the water and get up on step well.I'll admit that much for them but that's about as far as I'd go with that one.A good basic trainer and a pair of foam floats will out fly any of these ABS float planes.They look nice but in my honest opinion,there is no comparison between the two.Keep the wing loading down and the floatation factor up folks and you got a winner on your hands.