kwboost,

I was just re-reading you post with all the stats in it and noticed one other place you could save roughly 4 ounces if you wanted to spend the extra money.

A PT model 18X6 Cf prop is roughly 4 ounces lighter with the exact same shape and thrust numbers as the Mezjlik and since it's lighter, the spool up will be even better

The other thing was having to add a bunch of down to land. My guess is when you cut throttle from about half throttle the nose starts to point up.

This could be an indication of too much down thrust. Typically when a plane does this on landing, down thrust is a bit too much. I noticed it in mine. Going straight up it would slowly start pulling to the gear, coming out of a hover it pulled to the gear. I added 1 full degree of upthrust and a full degree of right thrust and all that went away.

I've seen a few people on here and in other places having to add some up thrust.

You could also be just slightly tail heavy which on this plane is no real big deal.

The other thing is you could add spoilerons (ailerons come up to help dump some lift) to come in around 2 clicks above idle. Lou55 suggested this and I tried it and it works. I think I use about 30% spoilerons. It was just enough for me to still have excellent control but the float went away. I set it on a switch because there are times I want to float it in, like when I forget to set my timer and I'm having way too much fun and forget to watch my fuel and have to deadstick. This plane is easy to do that with, it's just so much fun