There's a HUGE thread here in the ARF forum about the Seagull.

A lot of the Seagulls have incidence problems. It's hard to fix too, because the horizontal stabilizer has positive incidence. The only way to fix that is to hack the fuselage apart in the tail and rebuild the pocket that the stab fits in at 0*.

OR, sand the trailing edge of the wing saddle down untill the wing incidence matches the tail. Yeah--hack the covering off--sand it down. Trial and error. Keep the saddle LEVLE. Re-cover it. At that point--you'd basically have 0* incidence on the wing and stab. Then you'd have to adjust the engine to make it fly right.

I sold mine to a guy who didn't seam to care that it took 1/4" of up trim on the elevators to make it fly straight. The TE of the elevators were up about 3/8" and the LE of the elevators was down about 1/4" in the front. That was okay--untill you put it in a knif-edge. With all that up trim--that sucker was pulling towards the top of the wing harder than a glider lifts straight up in a 25MPH headwind.[:'(]

I'd take your chances on the Pheonix--unless somebody else tell you that it flies like poop too.

If thats the case--I'd just build a Dyna Flite Giant Decathlon and put a G-45 in it. Thats what I'm gonna do.