Crowhopping

[george@t...]

Hey Jerry,
Going out to propwash today to do a little crow hopping. Come on over if you
want a place to fly to today.

George

[george@t...]

Has anyone noticed the J series wants to climb. I took mine into the pattern
for the first time yesterday and it took quite a bit of stick pressure to
bring the nose down in the downwind leg. She flies just fine, but seems a
little tail heavy. Crow hopping didn't give me this indication. I admit to
not trying to trim the elevator in flight. I was only doing patterns and
didn't have the time in a pattern to really play with the trim.

George

[JERRY]

For the first flight in my J, I didn't know where to set the trim. I was
concerned about it getting too nose high on take off so set the trim for
lots of nose down. I had to really pull hard on the stick the entire first
flight. But I have it dialed in now and it flys level with very little
pressure to climb or descend. My CoG is near the rear of the range, which I
suppose would make difference too.
---
Jerry Booker

[george@t...]

Hi Jerry,

I was out there again today. I think I've got the trim pretty close. She
still wants to climb just a bit. Now I've noticed a tendency to want to roll
left, just a hair. Any ideas as to what that might be?

George

-----Original Message-----
From: JERRY [mailto:jerbook@m...]
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 3:02 PM
To: ThunderGull@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ThunderGull] Crowhopping

For the first flight in my J, I didn't know where to set the trim. I was
concerned about it getting too nose high on take off so set the trim for
lots of nose down. I had to really pull hard on the stick the entire first
flight. But I have it dialed in now and it flys level with very little
pressure to climb or descend. My CoG is near the rear of the range, which I
suppose would make difference too.
---
Jerry Booker

[JERRY]

My J has the same very slight tendency to roll. My guess it is caused by a
slight difference in the wing washout from side to side. It seems like I
saw a trim tab on the wing of one of Mark's planes.
It sounds like you are having some fun. Are you flying it without the doors?
---
Jerry Booker

[george@t...]

Hi Jerry,

Yeah, It flies great without the doors. Since the area where the gas tank is
is covered, there is no significant cupping effect, so it flies just fine. I
also took the lexan off of the port side as well.

Thanks. I was feeling a little bad about the roll. I'll try adding a small
trim tab on each aileron.

George