REFLECTOR: PITCH TRIM, up or down

[Scott Derrick]

Mines on a hat switch on the stick.

forward is down trim, as forward stick movement is nose down

backward is up trim as backward stick movement is nose up.

So the trim switch moves the same direction as the stick.

Scott

At 10:20 AM 11/29/2004, you wrote:
>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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