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Old 11-25-2013 | 06:50 PM
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I have 22 flights now on my Hawk and have a question/observation about elevator travel and expo during landing. I have moved my CG to 197mm. I have my elevator travel set up as in the manual. I have run from 35 to 45% expo. I find the Hawk handles great during all phases of flight, it is an excellent aerobatic airplane, but it requires a lot of up elevator during a normal flare to a relatively flat landing. Of course the more expo you use the further the stick will have to travel to reach the required throw. But this gets you into a range where small stick travels are giving progressively larger deflections then they would with less expo. So my efforts to make my Hawk less pitch sensitive in the flare by increasing expo have probably made it worse. Next time out I will try lowering the expo with a flight mode switch. Maybe try 25% or 15% or no expo when landing. The Hawk also requires a lot of down elevator travel during inverted flight and outside maneuvers so that phase of flight would probably benefit from less expo as well. I am not going to flip a switch when going "outside" though. Maybe a lot of expo is not such a good idea with these flying stabs...