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Old 09-16-2013 | 06:01 PM
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shannah
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Hi Doug,

No, I intend on flying it at my normal pace, which is mid throttle or lower. But, I am taking B.J.'s suggestion to trim it at a high speed and following his lead. I decided to try this instead of shimming thrust and doing other slight adjustments. This is a little different approach and will result in a few things that I will need to try out to see how I like it. Namely, it means that I will be trimming this for more of a "zero G" type setup. That means that for my normal, slower flight I may hold a bit of up elevator on horizontal flight. It sounds strange but I will try it since B.J. recommended this approach. Now, I have a pretty good traditional setup saved that I can switch back to if necessary but I am really curious to see how this method will work out. I didn't have a chance to really try much yesterday but I noticed that with the trim changes and shifting the CG a bit forward that I really liked the way it tracked. I found I was able to roll very nicely with this setup. I have a lot of work to do on this, so the jury's out for a while. I may go back to my old method of trimming at the speed I fly at, but I did find on my Episode that (thanks to Tony F.) it really helped when I flew faster when trimming. I just didn't do much at full throttle like I am doing now.