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CaptD:
My airplane has a
fixed rudder trim tab. It is mounted mid-rudder. It is 4" high x
1.7" deep, with about 1" "flying" and the other .7" riveted (ugly) to the
trailing edge of the rudder. It is bent about 20 degrees to the
left, flying the rudder to the right. It's painted, so I can't tell what
metal it's made out of (I didn't build the plane). It's pretty stiff
stuff. The gage is .044 including paint. I can get some digipix if
you want to see it.
I cruise
flat-footed. I can get about 1/4 to 1/3 of a ball's worth of trim out of
the friction except in higher-power, lower-airspeed modes. Having a
lot of complex spam-can time, I missed having adustable rudder trim when I first
started flying my LNC2, but within a few hours I adusted and now don't even
think about it. I do wish, however, that the builder had bonded the tab in
instead of riveting on the outside. It looks like an after-thought, which
it may have been.
Lee
Metcalfe
N320WH - 472 hrs and
holding - Kansas City (IXD)
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