ORIGINAL: mwarren400
ORIGINAL: bubbagates
My point is all surfaces are equally important.
Bubba, my point is that they are not equally important. The Elevator is by far the most important servo to keep from failing...you can fly all day without ever touching the rudder stick. Try flying a lap without the rudder...you even need it in Knife-Edge.
Now I do agree with you that many large scale 3D aircraft have 3 servos on the rudder and maybe 2 for the elevator. But with the question that we were given...I choose to put the strongest servo on the elevator.
I did not say you were wrong ....I just chose to disagree.
And if I implied that you were wrong that was not my intent and apology to you
What I'm saying is I use a good bit of rudder in way I fly. (KE loops both big and small, high Angle of Attack KE both nice and slow and low to the ground up to a several feet above the ground and zipping right along, snaps and such) In KE flight the rudder IS the elevator and the elevators become the rudder but with a lot less load. I was taught the proper use of rudder in my full scale career and I carried that into R/C and it has served me well from certain disaster with student planes
Also, the rudder can most definitely save you from diaster in the case of an aileron servo failure and even help out in case of a split elevator failure as long as the rudder is powerful enough.
This applies to almost all planes 40 size and up. You will notice that trainers have small rudders because it's unusual for a fairly new pilot to even think about the rudder, but when you move up to more aerobatic types you see the rudder is larger in almost all cases, including your Funtana both the 40 and 90 size
The way I see this it is this
We both agree that metal gear is the way to go
We both agree that good strong servos are needed for the elevators
We agree that the elevators and ailerons are important for directional control
We disagree that the rudder is also an important control surface
So lets leave it at that and I would like to here what others think of this. This is all good and I'm enjoying this debate very much