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Old 06-25-2004, 02:25 PM
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JeffH
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Default Low Speed Quirks

I am flying the GP GeeBee arf, and other than trimming for landing, it flies great. As the plane slows down, it becomes pitch unstable. I relate it to walking on a ball. You breathe on the elevator and is shoots up or down. Obvisouly, the answer is land faster, the problem is that it will not get on the ground at any faster speed. I am not sure if this is a design problem, incidence, thrust, etc. In the air, it does not exhibit any odd traits. You can even pull a full elevator loop without it snapping. It will slow to nothing and not drop a wing, but the elevator is hyper sensitive, but ONLY at low speeds. What should I do?