REFLECTOR: Rudder Travels

[Craig and/or Denise Woolston]

John and I are having a small disagreement on rudder deflections.  The book
calls for 2.5" of travel prior to brake engagement, which we have.  The part
we are disagreeing on is the travel after that point.  In the rudder rigging
chapter it calls for 4 inches of travel when setting your pedals total
travel.  In the finishing chapter it says 3.5 to 4.  We have 3.25 (L) and
3.325 (R) because the master cylinders can't compress the brakes anymore.
As the brakes wear down the travel will increase, right?.  If we take the
master cylinders off we get 4 inches before the pedals bottom out against
the canard bulkhead.  Just wanted to bounce that off the "collective wisdom"
of the reflector and see what the consensus is.

 

Craig

XL-5FG, Palmdale

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