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Old 03-27-2009 | 10:59 AM
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Don Brent
 
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Default Mounting the Engine at a slight angle.

I'm putting the finishing touches on my Tiger Trainer 60 and made a slight error when mounting the engine. The instructions call for the thrust line to be angled slightly the left to counter the torque of the engine. However, I must have missed that step and my engine is mounted pretty straight on. Will this be a huge problem or can it be corrected with a little extra rudder (or aileron?) trim.

Re-aligning it really isn't an option due to the fact that the engine mount is pretty firmly epoxied to the firewall and there really isn't enough room on the arms of the mount to re-drill the mounting holes.

Thanks,
Don