On that plane, make sure that you don't make it too tail heavy and get it too slow especially on landings. It will snap in a flash into the ground if you let it especially with the kind of elevator throw (15 deg) that you were told is okay as a start. Also tail heaviness tended to result in high speed stall as I recall, particularly on the bottoms of loops when the loading was highest. Better to err on the side of caution for cg and elevator travel volume.

Other more modern designs are more tolerant of tail heaviness probably due to their light weight. The DB60 tended to build on the heavy side for the wing size it carried; also had a somewhat unforgiving airfoil. Bridi tried to incorporate all the super forgiving virtues of the Super Kaos in the DB, but IMO didn't quite do it.

An otherwise pretty decent flier and was campaigned successfully in Pattern circles in the late 70's and early 80's. Flew my first ever contest with one, gosh, could it be almost 30 years ago? Man Im getting old!!

MattK