Ollie,

The type of flight instruction you seem to be referring to is entirely outside of my experience, which is not exhaustive. My instructor did check out my plane, and may have asked me about where CG was set, but I don't remember that. There was no "ground school", and no explanation of stability or any other "theory". We flew until I could solo, I soloed, and that was that. This may be atypical, but I was not under that impression.

The reason there are so many questions about CG is that beginners are told it is important, but don't really understand it. The question I would have is why so few of them are getting the CG recommendation that the manufacturers give.

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