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Old 06-15-2016 | 06:29 PM
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mgosson
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Default Caelus Balance & CG Assitance Help

Howdy,
My Caelus V2 is completed (sorry I do not have a scale to weigh it all) and I understand the balance point is 1/2" behind the trailing edge of the wing tube from what Mike at F3A and many here have stated. In order for the plane to balance I need to move the battery well forward of any other one I've seen or heard of, very strange.

Fuselage is set at Zero,
Wings set at one degree positive
Stab is set at zero
T can is set one degree positive.

In order to maintain level flight it requires several clicks of up elevator, 14 clicks or 2.5 - 3.0 degrees of deflection to maintain level flight. When I roll to inverted it requires plenty of down elevator to maintain level flight. From reading the NSRCA trimming chart it appears to be nose heavy but this is contradictory from what I've read and been told.

Any advice on this would be helpful.

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Last edited by mgosson; 06-15-2016 at 08:01 PM.