REFLECTOR: PITCH TRIM, up or down

[Hiroo Umeno]

Hmm.  This raises an interesting question.

How are others mounting their switches?  On mine, flicking the switch UP
produces the nose DOWN trim.  Flicking it DOWN causes the nose to go UP.

It is along the same logic as UP equating to forward yoke pressure and
DOWN being the back-pressure.  It's the way Cessna's trim wheel works
but relative to the nose movement, it is BACKWARDS.

How are others doing this?

Hiroo

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Scott Derrick
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:12 AM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: REFLECTOR: PITCH TRIM, up or down

I think we should all use the established method to describe pitch trim 
which is what it does to the primary pitch control.

Trim Down, puts the nose down and/or increases airspeed

Trim Up, puts the nose up and/or reduces airspeed.

The direction of elevator travel is opposite the direction of trim in a 
canard airplane. Somewhat confusing but,  we should be used to
backasswards 
terminology on our canards by now!

Scott

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