Vinnie wrote:
But you need to balance with the aircraft fully assembled, not the wing by itself!
To me, he is right on!! I just hope the same guy that got in on a thread I was in once,does not see this posting!
We went back and forth about this lateral balance thing, "wing on....OR... just the wing needs to be balanced". As I tried to explain in that thread.... Your fuse will most likely be heavy on the right side. (muffler). Why not put the wing ON and do it right? The guy made a reasonable point, being that the "leverage", for lack of a better term, is very minimal because of the close proximity of the muffler to the fuse side. He also stated this in relationship to balancing a TRAINER, which is more forgiving. BUT to me...... If that fuse is right side heavy, and you put on a perfectly balanced wing, it will not be balanced perfectly. AND WHAT'S MORE..... the word t-r-a-i-n-e-r, usually means a new person, (not always). Why "train" them half-xxxed? Sorry I went off the deep end here but memories of that thread, and the some of the mis-guided logic, got me riled again!!!
..lownslo