ORIGINAL: JimRoss
I have a question for you. When I took flying lessons (full size) and I added flaps for take off or landing I had to add some down elevator to keep the nose from balloning up. On my model, when adding flaps I have to use up elevator or it pitches down hard. Why 'dat?
Don't know why that would be - unless you've got the flaperons set to raise rather than lower. Then the flaperons act as spoilerons (someone correct me if I have the term wrong) the net result of which would be to pitch the aircraft down. To correct you would have to raise elevator. Some people set their plane up like this if they are having trouble getting it to sink on a landing approach. I've also heard some 3ders use this in the harrier move to stop wing rocking - never done that myself I'm simply not that good...
Ian