Hi - I have one of these planes. Flew it for a year in the novice category with an OS91FX and tuned pipe.

Definitely agree with strengthening the landing gear area - well we in south africa actually ended up swopping the carbon landing gear for aluminium and also increasing the size of the wheels - we flew off bumpy grass, old rubber conveyor belt, tarmac and cement runways around the country - because the slightest wrong landing and they split through!!! It's kinda fast on landing so learn to slow up and glide/flare it a long ways out. And with the airbus using up all carbon stock!!! it costs plenty to replace :-(

Also the covering is crap!!! it comes off very easy - in fact mine started coming off on the maiden flight - flapped so loud I thought the whole plane was coming appart!!! I totally stripped my plane and covered it with glass cloth and spray painted it. This was my first ever try at doing this and learned a lot about EXTRA weight!!! or rather that it's best not to have it....

Other than that it flies fantastic, looks good and with the right hands will challenge the F3a guys!!!

Good luck and enjoy the bird - it's a goodie :-)