Hello,
if I can, one question Troy...
ORIGINAL: Troy Newman
Great to hear Brian. This means its really close to all the other Oxai models we have flown. It should be about 1/16" of up trim.
The question is how are the up and down lines. Its pulling I bet a touch in both. Slowly shift your CG aft just a little until the upline is dead on. When this happens you will be at the best CG point. Now look at downlines and it will likely pull very slight. A small throttle to down elevator will take care of this. If you want it to be a little more aft CG then you can shift it back a bit more and the pull on the downline will go away also. I feel the models track better more forward CG than Aft. So I compromise with the mix in the downline. You should be about zero for knife edge mixing and CG really doesn't play a role in this model unless its really far out of whack. I flew one really tail heavy and it started pitching belly but that was when it was hands off inverted. Not very easy to fly a model this way. Some will choose this setup but I think its tough on the pilot. The suggested CG is like 175mm aft of the LE at the fuse side for the one piece wing model. My Pinnacles are at 180mm and 182mm aft of the LE at the fuse side. This was eliminate the slight pull on the uplines...Both have near no mix for elevator and zero for aileron with rudder input. In my two models one model has a 2% up mix with like left rudder and nothing on right and the other model is zero elevator on both sides. This is knife edge looping rudder input gets the 2% mix.
Here you suggest to move CG aft to correct pulling during uplines, but why don't we add more down-thrust to keep the forward CG?
Thanks in advance.