ORIGINAL: Ed_Moorman
Look, you are designing a sport plane, not a pylon racer. All that stuff about small tails isn't for you. A larger horizontal area gives you a much wider latitude of CG location. With a small tail, you have to be more precise. For a big Easy Sport, I would not go below 22% of the wing area.
Ed, the guy who was building a sport plane started this thread back in 2005 and hasn't been around here for awhile.
The guy who resurrected this 2year old thread just a day or so ago asked specifically about a pylon racer. But you're absolutely right, larger tails work better on almost all models.