REFLECTOR: Turn Coordinator
Carl Hoffman
hoffman3 at erols.com
Fri Mar 13 13:57:59 CDT 2009
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>Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:57:26 -0400
>From: Tom <tomcat05 at comcast.net>
>Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Turn Coordinator
>To: reflector at tvbf.org
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>Occasionally, I will lose fuel from the left fuel tank if the fuel cap is not sealed well enough with petroleum jelly. Is this related to uneven fuel flow?
>
>I fly with a Navaid autopilot that's coupled to Garmin 296 GPS. It has an electric gyro with CDI and slip indicator. It flies straight and level, but the right rudder moves 1/4" outboard against the rudder spring during flight. Are the rudders rigged properly?
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>Carl Hoffman
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>Carl, it sounds like the two issues presented (uneven fuel flow and
>rudder movement) are related. Took me a while to get the aircraft
>trimmed properly on initial flights and I found that when the ball was
>off center one tank would drain faster than the other. After I got the
>rudders trimmed properly the issue went away. is your ball centered
>during straight and level flight? The other baffling thing to me is how
>a rudder would move outboard without pilot input, The rudders curve
>slightly outboard of the stab which would tend to be pushed in with the
>relative wind. Tom
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Tom, the ball is centered during level flight. It hardly moves in turns.
If I was "flying sideways", wouldn't one of rudders move outboard, unless I put in a stronger rudder return spring? Or move the stop on the opposite rudder inboard. Carl
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