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Old 08-04-2008 | 09:22 AM
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Default RE: wing incidence

First offd i just wnt to point out that my instructor saw something in my plane and said i should check it, so he let me borrow his meter. What he saw was asymmetrical washout, and he thought this was causing the plane to stall to one side. When checking the plane (phoenix super decathlon, high wing) i saw that the stab was 2 degrees different from the wing. The directions on the meter said they should both be zero. I had the plane set up so it was level, the flat part on the bottom of the plane was level, what i expected to be the thrust line was level. The firewall was angled down 1.5 degrees from level (supposed to be 2) the wing at fuse was level, and the stab off by 2 degrees. The pplane needs 7 degrees of down elevator to fly straight. When i go into a dive the plane levlels off pretty much immediately. Havent had a chance to test too much else.