John,
not that you can do anything about it, but I suspect landings will always be a challange based on where it looks like the landing gear is. It appears to be a bit forward at least as far as convention in "stunt" models go. forward landing gear can lead to bouncy bouncy landings.

glad your persevering, this is a fine looking model

WoW John!What a nice looking bird. Just looking at the pix- whats the deal with the ailerons and rudder? Looks like its set to turn in on you with a left bank. How are the servos set up? I seem to remember this one when you were building it and installing the controller that you scratch built...

It's all black magic!     All seriousness aside the ailerons are really rudder coupled flaps.  When you turn the power on they center up nicely.  The rudder is also on a servo that I can controll from the handle.  Makes for exciting ground manovers.  I almost ran over my own lines the other day.  The controller has a preset lock for flight setting that gives me the correct rudder offset.

Pictured is the controller that attaches to the handle along with the boat load of electronics inside.  You can not see the receiver. It is buried under the bell crank.  You can also see the servo for the smoke generator.

By the way I have too much up-down controll.  I plan to turn the rudder coupled flaps back into ailerons.  They will be used for preflight ground control showoff only. For flight they will  be locked to neutral.  I can adjust the controll rods to make trim setting to adjust the wings level.

What a night mare.      Maybe your a litle tail heavy.  It looks great tho.  DOC Holliday

Doc,
Good point on the tail heavy.  I will check next time I get it all togather.  Tail heavy airplanes don't land all that good.  I suppect the CG needs to forward of CG marked on the RC plans.