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Old 06-28-2010 | 06:49 AM
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Hi all. I've been out of pattern for a while but I'm trying to get the hang of it again. I finished a Focus II this spring and am having a time getting it trimmed right. It always wants to pull to the canopy on down lines. It pulls upline fine. I've tried incidence changes, added tail weight until now it will fly inverted with almost no down elevator. The only way I've been able to stop it is to add down elevator to low throttle, but that is messing up straight and level flight when going from no power to powering up after a downline. Does anyone have any advice? Thanks, Michael Medlin.
Michael,

Glad to see you are flying again. A couple of % downline mix is not unusual for the newer pattern planes. On my Focus II that my brother Wes is flying now, I think I have 2%. Very nice flying plane,

Archie