Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: lml Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:37:08 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [63.150.227.16] (HELO admsmxsint01.jocoks.com) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.5) with ESMTP id 2003417 for lml@lancaironline.net; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:01:53 -0500 Received: by mail1.jcnc.info with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:01:52 -0600 X-Original-Message-ID: <44EFD4833826D411A5920008C7569BAB049DB265@mail.jocoks.com> From: "Metcalfe, Lee, AIR" X-Original-To: "'lml@lancaironline.net'" Subject: lml LNC2 320 fixed rudder trim X-Original-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:01:48 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C2C7E2.05EC13A3" This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2C7E2.05EC13A3 Content-Type: text/plain 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) ------_=_NextPart_001_01C2C7E2.05EC13A3 Content-Type: text/html Message
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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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