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Old 11-23-2009 | 02:53 PM
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cmoulder
 
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Default RE: Phoenix Extra 330S 60-90 Size

Rich, glad you found the right prop!

Can't say for sure how the wing incidence modification will affect KE performance, but suffice it to say that the vast majority of planes - including exquisitely trimmed, megabucks pattern planes - usually have a bit of elevator and aileron coupling in KE flight.

I forget exactly how much and what direction, but my Phx extra, with the wing mod, still needs a bit of elevator and aileron to keep it going dead straight in KE, but it is so little that I haven't even done a mix for it. You can do a rud-to-elev mix (and rud-to-ail) mix and get most any plane to do a "no-right-hand" KE in dead calm conditions, but even then if there is a little wind you will still have to do a little correction. Also, left rudder KE and right rudder KE will almost always require a different mix, and it may also vary with throttle setting (airspeed), so sometimes it is best just to fly with sticks, and the plane will tell you what it needs.

I had an interesting experience late last season when another member of my local club wanted me to do KE mixes for a .60-sized P-51. With the low wing and high dihedral I figured the ailerons would require a ton of mix, but the elevator required a humongous amount of correction, so we started out with a simple rud-elev linear mix and I think we ended up with about 35-40% elevator-up mix - HUGE. Funny thing was, after doing that, we were shocked to discover it needed NO aileron mix, and it would do perfectly straight, no-right-hand KE's with left or right rudder at anything from mid-throttle on up. Quite amazing, actually!