I'm going to be building a Herr Cessna 180. It doesn't come with ailerons and i was wondering if someone could tell me how to add them to it. I'm going to be flying in the wind i was wondering if this would help.

You haven't had any replies to this question because it's a tough one to answer. Not because you're being ignored.

How many kits have you built? I'm going to give you a brief explanation, but if this is your first kit, you might not "get" it.

The simplest way is to build the wing, then cut the ailerons out of the wing. Now, that being said, you need to prepare for this.

Does the wing have a rear spar where the leading edge of the ailerons will be? Most likely it doesn't, which means you'll have to cut each rib in order to install one. It will also require double ribs on each end of the aileron so that once cut out, both the wing and the aileron will have ribs at the ends.

That's the "easy" explanation.

I'm hoping the illustration will help.
Dennis-

Xtra, Dennis has given you an excellent tutorial on adding ailerons to a three control airplane however doing so will only detract from its intended performance and do nothing to its ability to handle winds.

Now not familiar with that particular Herr product but most of their kits are intended for very lightly loaded flight and are generally small airplanes. Rud/elev operation can handle winds just as well as rud/elev/ail can. There are a number of design factors that relate to the ability to handle wind with a heavy wing loading the predominate one. Adding ailerons on that airplane will add enough weight to hamper its performance but certainly not enough to make it a pleasant flyer in high winds.

In my opinion you will get more satisfacton by building and flying it as the designer intended.

By the way the only advantage of four control over three is during takeoff in a crosswind and with the prefered t/o method for that kind of airplane being a hand launch straight into the wind the arguement for ailerons is moot.

John