George,
Cool and clean job!
I'm glad you are happy with the struts.-

Landing the Viper is not difficult...after your learn It took me 3 set of struts.....but anyway....I'm not a super pilot either. I use 15 or 40 degrees flaps deflection... I do the approach always with the nose level or down and go to1/4 of power when in the runway axis. At about 30. feet hight I go to idle and let the Viper fly down with level or down nose nose....never nose up... Start to flair at about 5 feet of the ground....The flair is the trickie part....careful. You'll need pull the stick to slow descending speed.... I decided not to use exponentials.....feel better for my taste.
I do not use flap-elev mixing (personal choice) and always land on hight rates mode....better yet, after testing I only use one rate setting and do the rest with the fingers.....with the rudder don't.

Regarding the differences between the new and previous Viper version, I'll point them out during the building process.- Last Saturday I started with the rudder and also glued all hinges to the moving surfaces......and noticed:

* that inside there is a new layer of carbon fiber cloth.
* Also the rudder as all other flying surfaces, feels heavier and the skin is veeeery much stronger
* all notches and holes for the hinges are ready.....I just did some minor work to push the hinges more inside to get the proper location of the pivoting point of rotation....not big deal at all.-
Lets wait till tomorrow....a picture is 100000000000 times better than my writing....Imagine this: Tam's English is better than mine [X(], and this is not science fiction

Thanks,

Miguel