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Old 10-13-2004 | 07:16 AM
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Default RE: Improve (inverted) flight performance by 'trimming' both ailerons up?

Well,
ideally you should just barely have to breathe on down elevator when the plane is inverted, you dont really want hands off level flight while inverted.
Theres really a process to properly trimming the plane that is pretty long and drawn out, you really need to start with step 1 and go through the process to get it right. Notice the chart says holding "A LOT" of down elevator while flying inverted. You should have a little down elevator while inverted you should only correct if it requires more than a breath.
Heres the trim Chart at NSRCA
[link=http://www.nsrca.org/TrimA.htm]NSRCA Pattern Plane Trim Chart[/link]



One of my friends I fly with and learn from who came in 3rd at the NATS in Advanced likes to have just a little TINY bit of down elevator trim in his planes when he is finished trimming. I had the same thing in my Prophecy and it flies really well in uplines, downlines and inverted.



I reckon that if your plane has a fixed wing incidence then all you really have to work with is CG and thrust to get it as close as you can...