REFLECTOR: Turn Coordinator

[Tom]

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?

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