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Old 11-27-2002 | 12:20 AM
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Default Re: Advance 40

Originally posted by Goldwing
I could not find a Carl Goldberg Tiger 2 ARF so I got and just finished my Advance 40 VRTF and is just about ready to fly. I may be blind but I could not find the measurments for the control throws. Is it not in the manual? What is a good place to start?
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I assembled my Advance 40 about 4 years ago. NEVER flew it with the trike gear, started out making it tail dragger. I don't know where my instruction manual ended up, but I didn't follow them when setting control throws anyway.

My rudder throw is almost 2 inches each way. Elevator, between 3/4 and 1 inch each way, Ailerons started out about 3/8 inch each way, then got increased. I never measured final aileron throw. I just adjusted them for as much throw as I could get without causing any binding.

I've had a TT Pro .46 on mine all the time. The .46 has (or at least did 2 years ago {last time I had a chance to fly anything}) enough power to make the Advance 40 the first plane I've owned with enough performance to successfully perform a Knife-edge loop.

My ONLY complaing about the Advance was that flying knife-edge with the left wing down, it would NOT maintain altitude. However, with the right wing down, it not only maintained altitude, but was able to perform knife-edge loops.
Never found any reason for the difference. Mine was set up with NO side thrust, and rudder throw equal both ways even while holding on to the rudder to try putting the control linkages under "simulated flight" loads.