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Old 08-19-2004 | 10:52 PM
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Default RE: F-18 flaps??

Hi Vin:

I still have a thermal glider and a little Sig Something Extra that is set up that way with Flaperon mode.....drooped flaps and ailerons, with aileron control for landing rather than Crow, i.e. up ailerons with flaps......in both cases, ailerons get mushy so need to definitely be at high rate when in that mode....also have to be careful that AOA of the wingtips stays slightly lower than the roots when droop deployed our you end up with a mutha that likes to tip stall and snapper-do....the way I check it is to go way high and stall the bird and correct till the wing drop is minimized.....

I'm still grounded with the cracked boom on the BigCat......so now spending more time on the SJ 16......still trying to get the landing attitude to look like your greasers......but still bend a nose strut about every 5th landing on grass....arrgghh!

Tom