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Old 05-10-2002 | 07:19 PM
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Jeff396
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Default Balancing and Control Throws

Yep, that's what happened.....rolled to the left and came very close to a family sitting at one of our picnic tables. Scary!!! I know that the guy who sold him the plane, who has nothing good to say about the Pitt's which is why he sold it, has warned me repeatedly to make sure I have what I probably think to too much airspeed on take off. I have also been practicing higher that normal speed landings on my other two planes. I actually now prefer this method of landing though I get made fun of a lot. Anyway, they rarely bounce that way.

I have already done a pre balance on the plane and am very happy with it. I did it by tipping it upside down on the top wing using one of those GP CG balancers. I then put on of the little levels that comes with it on the horizontal stab to be sure the cg point was directly above the pivot point and let it go. It consistently went nose down so at least I'm close with no weight. Of course that was before covering and painting the ABS.

Jeff