I have some familiarity with that airplane, there are over twenty of them flying locally and I have mentored many of them into the transition to that type airplane as well as warbird racing which it excells at.

The reason it suffers from the bouncys is when the main gear is used in the stock way the wheel footprint is far to far forward while its true this will help prevent noseovers but it also will make landing smoothly almost impossible. Much better to learn to use the elevator to prevent noseovers and bend the gear back to just behind the leading edge. This will indeed make a hugh differance.


Using flaperons will almost certainly contribute to an early demise of the airplane. Its not a trainer, it does not fly like a trainer and its unwise to try and make it fly like a trainer. Much better instead get someone to mentor you through the transition rather than just fly it once and cut you loose. Its a great airplane and an ideal first warbird do not try to make it something it is not that is always a mistake.


These are my two and some of the rest of the pumpkin patch.

John