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Old 08-25-2005 | 09:52 AM
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Default RE: Incidence Problem?

The ailerons are fine and the roll rate is perfect for me. Doesn't seem to be any adverse yaw either.

If it's nose heavy would it want to stall in a 45 degree inverted climb when chopping the throttle? Wouldn't it require quite a bit of down elevator for inverted flight? Right now it requires almost none.

Now, I got 2 incidence readings last night and I'm wondering about my meter. The very first time I checked it, it showed 2 degrees negative on the main wing. Now, I wanted to keep checking to make sure things were correct. Subsequent readings were in the 1/2 range.

I will check it again tonight because I really don't think its the CG. My instructor from when I was training flew it as well and he thought the CG was fine.

The plane is certainly flyable as is - just not to my liking



Downthrust:
This was one of the fuselages with the firewall glued in backwards. I wonder if it the thrust line of the firewall is off. I drilled out the hole for the throttle pushrod myself (like others have said to do on here when this happens).