RE: help with balancing nexstar
DO NOT REBALANCE THE PLANE. IT IS NOT TAIL HEAVY!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS PERFECT!
This bothers me. Chances are, your instructor has flown a NexStar before and it climbed to the moon and would not trim out and their only solution was to add nose weight. WRONG!!!!!!!!!!
If you leave the anti stall tips and the speed brakes on, it will climb and you can't trim it beyond about half throttle.
Solutions:
1) Trim a little down into the elevator by making an ajustment on the clevis of the elevator. However when you remove the speed brakes it will dive a bit and if you remove the anti stall tips, it will dive some more and you will have to go back and take out the ajustment you made.
2) Remove the anti stalls and speed brakes.
I recomend trimming a bit of down for now.
I have taught countless people how to fly on the NexStar, theirs and mine.
You may also have to make an ajustment for the steering. Several of them arrive a little off.
Do NOT add weight to the plane. It is not out of balance, the person telling you this is just unfamiler with the NexStar and I don't care how long they have been flying, it doesn't need nose weight.
I'm right and they are wrong on this one.