Originally Posted by tucson

Here is a interesting CA Hawk story.

Today I helped a good friend maiden his Hawk. He asked me to work the trims for him on the initial flight.

He complained about it climbing and asked me to add DT for him. He kept telling me to keep adding DT. I did until there was none left to give.

He had to hold a lot of Down stick on top of the trim.

He is a very good pilot and did get it back on the ground without a scratch. It was scary to say the least.

The first thing we checked was his CG. It was right on. 195mm.

We kept scratching our heads, finally we checked the trim to see what it was actually doing.

Yes it was reversed.

He had just got the 12X transmitter back from Horizon for a upgrade to DSMX and a repair to his elevator trim which had stopped working.

Somehow they sent it back to him with the elevator trim reversed.

I never heard of that happening before. He is one lucky guy.

Stan