I have made a lot of flying geese blocks and I use the Eleanor Burns templates. They come out very accurate every time and hardly any waste. Sounds like you are getting very good after a few practice ones

I think the 4 at a time method and using the tucker trimmer is my favorite by far, perfect every time. Her method and her rulers are worth the investment.

You will have less frustration if you use one of the methods to making flying geese already mentioned above. The Eleanor Burns flying geese ruler works great (there a large and small E. Burns ruler, each makes several sizes of flying geese), the four at a time method works great, too.

Get Deb Tucker “Wing Clipper” tool and watch her video on YouTube.

This is important. I made my small squares a little larger once. Then after they are cut into geese, there is a little scrap sewn into it that you don't want there.

If you are making them so both "wings" are out of the same fabric, then I'd definitely use the no-waste method where you make 4 at a time. I find them to be easier to make accurately also.

I too am a big fan of Quilt in A Day FG ruler too, I've only been quilting 3 years and have made 3 FG quilts so that's the only method I have tried and I'm very happy with the results.

A wonderful 3-dimensional flying geese is so simple to make that I rarely make the original anymore...but that's just my preference. Take two 2" squares and one 2x3 1/2 " rectangle (folded in half width-wise). Sandwich the 3 fabric cuts with the raw edges at the top and the right hand lined up. Stitch 1/4" seam down right side. (Fold of the rectangle is facing downward inside the sandwich.) Open the sandwich and spread the center to a point. Done! It is always straight without fighting with the bias edges. Of course, you can adjust the size of the geese to whatever size you need.

Another vote here for the Deb Tucker Wing Clipper ruler method. Unfortunately, I made a quilt years ago that had sixteen flying geese per block, and about 42 blocks.. I got really good at the old fashioned method rectangle-and-two-squares method, but I think I said “bad words” whenever I thought about flying geese for a while!

I took a class long ago from Mary Ellen Hopkins. She said she always added the sky part to the geese part with the sky part being on top. Said it made a difference. I had forgotten about that.