Thanks for all the tips - I've done most of those items - the flash removal, etc. etc. And after reading your posts and some others - I'm kinda thinking I'm asking for too much from my CX2 - maybe time to move up to something with a tail rotor.

But, one other question on balancing: when my battery is out of the CX2, and I balance it by hand by the flybar - the flybar being perpendicular to the fuselage - its definitely nose heavy - and even more so with the battery. In the beginning, I added weight to the tail to help it balance, then I screwed the forward flight servo arm in a turn so it would fly more stable. What's the best way to balance it without the battery - move the 3-in-1 and receivers back closer to the motors?