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Old 07-11-2006 | 08:02 AM
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Default Thrust Angle

To start, I've been flying IMAC for a couple years now and am in Intermediate. I'm really careful setting airplanes up (ask my wife) but I've never really hunkered down and tried to totally perfect an airplane's setup, but I think it's time I do so.

I've started thinking about some of the corrections that I make when I fly, and wonder if a little better setup would minimize them. One of the big ones is adding left rudder in an outside push (climb)... like an outside cuban, or the teardrop. I have my plane tracking straight on uplines, but I do have a small amount of right rudder trim in. I am wondering if adding right thrust and removing the trim will reduce the left rudder required in the push or increase the left rudder required?

I am assuming that I will always need some left rudder due to P-factor when inverted... just want to know how much is normal.

Thanks.