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I have been using my Pilot for a few years now doing every possible news/magazine/reality story (mayby not the most common type of steadicam work...but its so much more fun with a steadicam) I can with it (and a HVX200) and have been really happy with it, and still am. The rig is still working fine, but sooner or later I will have to start replacing parts of it or the whole rig. So am thinking about upgrading to a Scout system. But since I will have to pay for it myself (my tv station shows little interest in sponsoring it) I am unsure. Will have to sacrifice a lot of other stuff to do so. The thing is that the pilot rig supports the HVX200 with wireless sound and everything I need without problems. And I will soon probably be upgrading to an AF100 (which actually weighs less even with lens) which should work fine with the pilot (and give me some more creative toys to play with like deapth of field). And I don't see the need to fly our bigger shoulder Panasonic cameras. So I do not need a bigger rig to support heavier equipment. So my question is....if I upgrade to a Scout system and put a lot of weights on it to make it much heavier then I can make the pilot, will my shots be significantly more stable just from the fact that I am flying a heavier rig, or will the experience be similar to flying the pilot? And will keeping a level horizon be a little bit easier with a heavier rig? or is it just based on skill? Hope someone who have worked with both systems (or similar) can say a little about how different they feel to help me make up my mind if it's worth it, or if I should just go on with my pilot and some day replace it with a new when it gets worn out. Here are a few samples of the type of work I need to do daily (this is from a while back, the first stuff I did with the rig): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHwZDNrffNc