Joe Cruz wrote: > I have a question about elevator trim tab travel. How much is enough and how many green light bars will ever be lit up at one time?
I think you'll have all of the bars but one. Without sitting in my plane and looking, I'm pretty sure all elements are lit except the trim tab position, otherwise you could look at it and still not tell exactly where you were on the scale. As for how big, one factor is will you have flaps or a belly board, and if so, do you care if it's trimmed properly for landing. And also, do you have a header tank that will result in a "volatile CG", or do you have wing tanks that will have a much smaller CG shift during flight typical flights. I built a small tab, and never used more an a third of the whole scale at max CG change, but it wasn't enough to counter the flaps' effect during landing. Give us a little better idea of the rest of your setup, and somebody with something similar can probably answer the question better. There's more on my trim tab at http://www.n56ml.com/trimtab/index.html . It has details on deflection, among other things... Mark Langford, Harvest, AL Still looking for my misplaced kid gloves ML at N56ML.com www.N56ML.com
