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Old 09-01-2006 | 12:25 PM
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ORIGINAL: whaturi

my elevators are all messed up, one is higher than the other because the factory cut the hinge slots wrong. they don't seem to go up togetehr perfectly, but it sure doesn't show up in walls or anything. is your engine thurst ok? wrong engine thrust totally ruins 3d. what engine?
I thought you re-sloted the elevators when the hinges broke [sm=confused.gif]. I just reviewed your latest video, especially the walls and what I saw is in all cases, you were holding left rudder as well as left aileron right as you enter the wall. On your plane the right elevator is higher so this would make sense as to why you are holding those controls that way as it's gonna want to roll right and you are counteracting that.

At 2:19 in the video you get a good view of the right aileron being down then quickly switching to up to arrest the TR and at 3:22 you get a great view of both the left aileron being way up and the left rudder and you were level for this one just as you pull the elevator to enter the wall.

I have seen you fly this plane quite a bit and since you are way better at 3D than I am, I look at control surface deflections which help me learn in every 3D video I see. I think you are simply doing it out of reflex and not even realizing you are even doing it. Your a heck of an instinctive pilot when it comes to 3D and recovering from certain disaster.

So my opinion remains unchanged, check your elevator travels and make sure they are getting there at the same time. You'll be surprised just how off you may be. On this plane, I know I had 2 of them, the elevators are very sensitive at big throw amounts and when they are out of sync, the plane is going to roll to the higher/faster elevator