Wow, thats kind of a downer as I'm just finishing up my GP RV-4. I've got a heavy RVC 58 on it, and the beast is going to need a bit of weight in the tail to make the CG line up with the plans (about 6.5 pounds wet). I've been spending most of my flying time with an Adrian Page supercub (after I crashed the GP taylorcraft on takeoff one day...bad day...just a bad day), the supercub flies great, lots of rudder required, very much a good warm up plane no matter what you are flying.

I only have about 80 feet of runway available to me, should I be finding a better takeoff line for my plane? How much runway did you use up before the liftoff? Should I be using my flaps and not be scared of the fifth channel?

eniac