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Old 05-25-2009 | 12:05 AM
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Default RE: Can I mix Elevator and throttle?


ORIGINAL: Popriv

.The EasyGlider Flys with the motor off most of the flight. It flys great.
With the brushless multiplex motor it climbs to altitude in no time BUT the more power, the more down elevator I have to hold.
I've been told this is partly due to the wing design of a glider?? Its not going to fly fast well

Bingo, Its called decaledge and specifically wing to stabilizer decaledge. Re read the third and forth paragraphs in post #9. Thrustline changes can help a bit but using a silly throttle to elevator mix is just going to create a monster.

Attempting to force an airplane to fly faster than it its design speed (and the key factor is the high positive wing to stabilizer decaledge) without a corresponding reduction in decaledge to a very low or zero relationship will only create a horribly unstable airplane in pitch.

All conventional airplanes exhibit trim changes with power changes, you cannot escape that. learn to fly and trim your airplane. Flying airplanes with high wing to stab decaledge remember power is your primary pitch control not the elevator. As was already mentioned fly it to altitude and glide it down or fly level slowly. Thats what it is and thats the way its intended to be flown.

John