ok folks, i just finished my first flight with the long can feigao 5300k on the stock geared tail and boy does it handle. my weather channel page shows 6mph winds, but in front of my house the test conditions were more like 9mph sustained with 17mph gusts. not exactly fun, but it gave me a healthy dose of snappy inputs, and the tail was the most stable brushless hh solution i've ever flown. i got my gain to 85% without any wag compared to 70% with other brushless setups. i found 75% gain was the most flyable (feigao dd w/3020 came the closest, flying best at 60%).

i didn't get to fly as aggressively as i would've liked due to the wind, but i did get to test for bounce back and collective punch. all i can say is this tail has given be back my confidence to let 'er rip.

i'm still going to give my old gws dd a try with hh, and possibly duals as well since i still have two new stock tail motors (making a dual motor mount would be the thing that delays me).

lwatson, i appreciate the offer, but i'm running a phx10 on the tail now and would like to keep the weight down for a close comparison.

i'm not going to post the finer details of any setup until my test matrix is complete, so there's no confusion over what parts to get and what settings to use.

[edit: here are some pics of my current setup]