You're right. I added some additional nose weight and the landings got much better. I also did some stall testing at altitude this past weekend. In a really slow situation, the canard and the left wing stall together. Once the stall starts it's pretty violent before you're able to recover. She drops the left wing on mine and starts down, then it spirals into a near 360 uncontrollably before enough airspeed is gained to pull out. I see why people have lost theirs low to the ground, you need A LOT of airspace to recover.

This model will also fly with elevons and no canard (elevator) function. I was able to land and take off without any trouble too. I had full through on the elevons. I noticed that my plane was hunting (pitching) during takeoff and I later found that the nose cone mounting screws were loose allowing the cone to move up and down. I really enjoy flying this plane.