Steve,
I just started flying my HS, wonderful to fly, but soon we discovered some nasty habits, flying it off an airbase concrete RWY.
But first:
Throw away the Eurokit gear, I had to make countless mods before it even worked. F.i., no way the spring air based system could pop the gear if it was lying on its back on my bench. Even upright it got stuck if only the lightest of obstructions came in the mechanism. It must be able to overcome the air resistance when flying, so it should have some extra capacity cranking the gear down. Up was no problem.

The first mod, even before the maiden flight, consisted of replacing the wheels/brakes with Intairco units. At least I could brake now with assurance.

We made the first (very successful) flights with the Eurokit but after a few flights we made twice landings while passing over small rubber ridges in the concrete. Sickening to see if after a nice landing, the HS suddenly starts to bounce, and You can't do a thing at it! The last one I had considerable damage done to my wingtips, my whole nice paint job ruined! Of course the landing speed must have been a tad too high, but we (my son and I) are new on the jet scene...need some time to get lower speeds on final.

So after my last mishap I got the Eurokit gear out and now I have the absolutely gorgeous BEHOTEC units installed, terrific workmanship these are! These are of the air/air type, iso of the spring/air type of Eurokit.
Currently I am awaiting the Jet A-1 struts, which have a trailing link type of dampening. I figure they will take the Intairco units. I hope these expensive mods will stop this crazy HotSpot Dance!

A few weeks ago at the Apollo 11 Field near Van Nuys in LA, I witnessed an HotSpot owner who had shortened his HS's nose leg a little bit, in order to get the nose lower after landing thus preventing bouncing.
From a friend in the UK I got the advise to add canards to the nose...
As a short term remedy I will have to learn to push firm down elevator, right after touchdown, which is a bit unnatural to me. Plus then we also get my brakes on, which run in sequence with down elevator.

Some tech details about mine:
Power is JetCat P80
Futaba R129 DP receiver
Emcotec RV6 power unit
2 X 5cell 2200NiMh batteries
One 2500NiMh Bat for the engine (all batteries stowed as far as possible aft in the fuse for balance)
4 X 8411 for aileron/elevons
2 X Multiplex FL BB for the rudders, a perfect match for this model!
To get all stuff programmed on my Futaba FC28, which has only 8 programmable channels I had to make use of THREE Stephan Merz (SM) electronic programmable Y-cables: for the twin rudders/nose steering, the parallel running wheel brake with elevator, and two servo's that control the separate gear and door sequencers.
Airbrake (be SURE to fit one! I like the ventral type also, shown in the previous pics....too late to install it in mine.
Sequencing doors (they close again after gear down.....at first it looked overkill to me, but at least they do not get damaged with a bad landing..)
Fuel tank 2 liter Coke bottle, PET quality, which is very sturdy)
UAT hopper
Ultra Precision UP8 gear valve
Ultra Precision door sequencer
Ultra Precision Wheel brake valve
Ultra Precision tubing (very resistant against kinks with tight bends)
Jet-tronics air brake electronic valve
All couplings and filters FESTO
Separate wheelbrake airtank
Weight empty 10,5 kg, some 22 lbs