REFLECTOR: Heavy Ailerons

[Jim Agnew]

Personal experience!! I had inboard and outboard fences and the ailerons were very heavy but the response was much improved.  Removing the outboard fence made the ailerons much lighter with little change in aileron response.
 
Jim
 
James F. Agnew
Jim_Agnew_2 at Yahoo.Com
Tampa, FL
Velocity 173 Elite Aircraft Completed & Flying 



----- Original Message ----
From: Chuck Harbert <c.harbert at comcast.net>
To: reflector at tvbf.org
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 3:41:47 PM
Subject: REFLECTOR: Heavy Ailerons


Gordon Putney wrote:

>    I did move the push-pull cable ends radially inboard 3/16" on the 
> aileron crank arms to achieve full controll deflection(2-1/2" down and 
> 2-1/4" up, and I know this increases.......

Gordon, Steve mentioned this when I talked to him yesterday and mentioned 
that you were going to remove the aileron "fences" to see if that made any 
difference. I assume it didn't, since you wrote. I know that there was 
another V that changed the position on the aileron crank which made his 
controls very heavy as well, so I'd suggest you try moving it back to the 
factory recommended position to see if it makes a difference, although 3/16" 
isn't very much. I assume that the control cables move smoothly and that the 
anchor connection inside the cabin is per specs.

Could the VG's ( in front of the aileron) have any affect on the air 
loadings on the ailerons? I've never heard of any problems, but they are 
designed to keep the airflow attached longer to the wing which could 
conceivably load the ailerons.

Chuck H



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