ORIGINAL: A&P Mechanic
Hi Everyone again.
I have resumed building my Conquest VI, and have thought about incorporating a stabilator, rather than elevators, and cannot think of too many reasons to not do it. I could accomplish the modification, and I think it would look neat, but, do you guys think it would change the performance in any negative ways? I think it would be sturdy enough, and aerodynamically "cleaner", but I don't want the change to screw-up the performance. I welcome your input for this idea.
Choose the pivot point as I described above and statically balance it. It may not need 100% static balance. On ailerons that I statically balanced in the pastI balanced about 70% of the aileron weight and the servo did the rest. That saves real weight in the tail.
If you need to find the AC of the stab, look up Geistware on-line, for a reasonable calculator that will give you all the answers you need