ORIGINAL: bruce88123
Excessive nosewheel steering seems to plague a great number of planes. It appears that people think they are building cone racers and not airplanes. IMO the plane should be able to barely turn around in the full width of the available runway. Anything more than that is unnecessary for a trainer. Some radios (like mine) have dual rate available for the rudder/nose wheel and this handy. I must admit to using this feature for "cone racing" mode. Actually rudder is set high for flight/taxi and low for actual takeoff/landing.
I totally agree with Bruce here. I was guilty of doing the same thing when I was first staring out. The nose wheel should turn no more than 5°-10° at the most. One good rule of thumb I have found when setting up a nose wheel is to put the pushrod connection on the inner most hole of the servo arm at the servo, and the farthest out hole on the control arm of the nose wheel. Yes, the plane may take a bit more room to turn around when you are taxing the plane. But it will make the plane smoother and easier to control on your takeoff run and your landing roll out.
Hope the helps
Ken