Thank you for all the replies.
No 'keep it chocked and tie a barrel of cement to the tail' suggestions then?
That was my thinking to start?!
Part of the thinking with buying an Avid or Kitfox 'toy' is for maintaining (and creating) pilotage skills (if the new machine is going to be more of an AP IFR tourer then I think skill-fade in hand-flying will be pretty rapid).
Cheers, Sam.