Tail-heavy symptoms — floaty, pitch-divergent, hard to land
The plane feels floaty and pitch responses amplify instead of settling.
💡 The idea: CG is too far aft, letting pitch responses diverge.
Try these in order
Make one change at a time and re-test — that's how you learn what your car likes.
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1
Move CG forward toward spec
Directly addresses the root cause.
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2
Reduce elevator throw / add expo if instability is severe
Buys margin while you dial the CG back in.
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3
Re-test with the classic 45°-up-then-release test
Climbing on release confirms tail-heavy.
Found what works? Save it as a Setup Sheet and compare it against your baseline, log the result in your Run Log, or dig deeper in the RC Wiki.
General RC tuning guidance — your chassis manual's own tuning chart is the final word for your specific car.