Mark You have it nailed. I was saying exactly that about needing a lot of rudder and yes Mark did put on a fixed trim tab. Mine is in the works now and will be installed today. Wind was calm this morning but the fog over took us today. No flying today Joe Horton, Coopersburg, Pa. joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 07:09:34 -0600 "Mark Jones" <flyk...@wi.rr.com> writes: > Mark, > Are we talking the same thing here? Don't you have a huge trim tab > permanently set on your rudder which will correct center your ball > in > flight? Maybe I misread what Joe was talking about but if you have > no trim > tab mounted to your rudder, which I do not, you must keep left > rudder input > to keep the ball straight. If you have a trim tab mounted to your > rudder and > have it adjusted properly, then of course you can fly with your feet > off the > pedals. Did I miss something here? > > Mark Jones (N886MJ) > Wales, WI USA > E-mail me at flyk...@wi.rr.com > Visit my KR-2S CorvAIRCRAFT web site at www.flykr2s.com > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> > To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> > Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 10:08 PM > Subject: Re: KR> Flight #4 > > > > Mark Jones wrote: > > > > > Unless you have an offset built into your vertical stabilizer, > you will > > find > > > that with the Corvair engine the torque is so great that quite a > bit of > > left > > > rudder is required to keep the ball centered. > > > > Mine is only that way when climbing out. Once I get up some > speed, mine's > > like Larry's, just take my feet off and it'll straighten itself > out. I DO > > have a "heavy" left wing though, although I suspect that's due to > 150 > pounds > > in the left seat, and none in the right. I plan to remedy that > with a 5" > > round aluminum tube fuel tank in the right wing, killing two birds > with > one > > stone. > > > > I did another hour and a half this morning, playing with static > ports and > > fuel totalizer, and another four landings on short strips. I flew > 2.5 > hours > > and did 22 landings at Fayetteville on Thursday, with the goal of > perfecting > > the power off landing from downwind. The static port tweak got > the > bottom > > end of the airspeed indicator to be fairly accurate at the expense > of the > > upper end, but the VSI is still crazy. Need more investigation > there, but > > it makes me feel better that nobody else can figure it out either. > Today I > > added a backup electric fuel pump, and tomorrow I'll wire it to > the backup > > UPS battery mounted in the tail. Redundancy will be mine, and CG > will > move > > aft a little. > > > > I talked to Kim McCutcheon (president of the Aircraft Engine > Historical > > Society and mechanical engineer A&P) today , and he commented that > it > takes > > an engine out landing to start thinking like I do now...going > everywhere > at > > 12,000'. Next weekend it's a 400 mile trip to Daytona Beach to > Corvair > > College #9. Lots to do before then...mainly wiping all the oil > and > exhaust > > residue off the bottom for the first time in 35 hours. > > > > 73 hours on N56ML to date! I did manage my first high speed > "missed > > approach" at Hazel Green Thursday, for Jim Hill's benefit. He was > setting > > the timing on his KR at the time. When I landed at Moontown a few > minutes > > later, my phone was ringing. Jim said "You mustav been going at > least > > 200mph! Sweet sounding engine!". Yep, first time... > > > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to > krnet-le...@mylist.net > > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > >
