The extra is NOT hard to land. It is light for its size and floats in. The problem is that you have to land smooth and slow because the LG is very weakly mounted. If you bounce at all, hit hard (even a little), or touch down fast, the gear is coming off.

Every landing needs to be greased in perfectly. It flies so well that I got 8-10 near perfect landings before I took the gear off.

The LG plate is 1/8" ply (or a metric equivalent). It is about 3" by the fuse width. There is 1/8" square balsa reinforcement where it joins to the fuse side, and two triangles of 1/8" ply. That's it - no triangle stock, no thick ply, no FG. This on an 11+ lb gasser. The design is light, light, light. I like light planes as much as the next guy, but I am not a good enough pilot to land this plane consistently (on our grass field) as it is. Now that the gear is off, I will try to come up with a permanent solution.

Leonard