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Old 08-17-2004 | 01:39 AM
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Default RE: Torque effect of larger engine on launching

I look at it like launching a hot car at the drag strip, once you get beyond the initial lunge and steer out of it, the rest is anti-climatic. I would not want to bias my steering or thrust angle [rearend allignment] to compensate for a little bit of squirrellyness right at the start. A certain amount of right thrust is needed on some planes to get them to track a vertical line, but with even the hottest 1/2As that I've ever flown, I've never needed it. There is a certain amount of "stored energy" that needs to be dissipated on a hand launch that I feel you should just live with, instead of retrimming the plane each and every time you take to the sky. ROG take offs with a torky setup can be kind of exciting too, but you fly your way through the power transition, not trim your way through it. I feel like the time that is invested in getting to a perfectly dialed in trim [for flight] shouldn't be wasted[and re-dialed in] each time I go up. Bottom line is, what ever works for you is what matters, but when duty calls to teach someone, this is the philosophy I try to get across to my gullible student! Just dipping the right wing panel somewhat is all you need with a level push into the wind.