REFLECTOR: STD RG Trim

[Scott Derrick]

Trim the left rudder out until the ball is in the center.

Tape the vertical with duct tape near the lower part of the rudder. Place a shim between the rudder and the vertical, about an 1/8 inch thick.  Then fill the gap with micro or epoxy glue, about 2 inches long, so it sticks to the rudder.  Let cure, clean it up and fly. If that was to much file the new tab down a bit and test fly again.  If the ball is still out, add another 1/8 inch and test fly.  Do this until the ball is in the center. 

Once you have the ball in the center, yaw trim, you can evaluate the roll trim.   If the plane still wants to roll and the roll trim cannot handle that you can shim both or one wing.  You usually want to shim the light wing first by taking some of the aoa out of that wing by shimming the lower bolt. If thta s not enough add in more aoa to the heavy wing by shimming the upper bolts.

Scott

Izzy Brownfield <iznstacy at yahoo.com> wrote:

>I'm a new owner of a STD RG with io-360 three blade MT prop 
>At cruise T&B indicator is half ball to the left with a slight left turn tendency. Fuel is consumed from the right tank at twice the rate of the left tank. 
>To center the ball it requires quite a bit of left rudder and light right aileron pressure. 
>What adjustment is needed to be made to correct this?
>Thanks
>Izzy
>5txo
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