A tip about setting ailerons........

I get to check other people's airplanes to "see" what's wrong a lot. One thing that has repeated itself a lot is worth mentioning here.

Wings that don't have 100% span ailerons/flaps usually have fixed sections of Trailing Edge either side of the aileron. I can count on one hand the number of those airplanes I've seen in the last year where those TE pieces were correctly aligned. Heck, very often they aren't even with each other on one side more often than not, much less being even all across the entire wingspan.

But what I almost always hear every time I try to explain what works when eyeballing a wing for warps etc, is a question that repeats again and again. Someone always asks, "which of those things are you supposed to line the aileron up with" or "is it better to line the aileron up with the outside one or the inside one".

The aileron is really supposed to be positioned relative to the wing, not those TE fairings. And with the very few TE fairings I've seen that line up relative to the wing, it really is worthwhile to ignore them. The last couple of ARFs I've assembled, those things were so bad that I felt compelled to straighten at least one of them on every one of those ARFs. If for no other reason than to head off the well meaning suggestions that I didn't have my ailerons "aligned right". chuckle.....