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roddyeuropa(at)aol.com
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:25 pm Post subject: flying one wing down

Hi

  

 

  Since I had my europa repaired it has a tendency to fly one wing down. I suspect this may be due to one wing having been repaired by a professional sailplane repairer (Roger Targett) and this wing being more efficient at generating lift than the 15 year old, not quite so pristine, other wing.

  Questions for the group - 

  1) is there any way I can rig the ailerons to correct this? I suspect that if I adjust the aileron on the wing that drops the ailerons will just centralise slightly down. maybe a small trim tab?

  2) Do others find that their europas will slowly drop a wing if flown hands off? In practice, its not a problem as I have a wing leveler installed, but I would like to correct the problem if I can at source.

  

 

  Regards

  

 

  Roddy Kesterton

  G-IKRK

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davidjoyce(at)doctors.org
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Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 11:53 pm Post subject: flying one wing down

Roddy, You can trim it to whatever sort of balance you like by adding a strip of triangular section wood under the trailing edge of the aileron of the wing you want to push down. Cross section roughly  2cm fore & aft, 5 or 6mm at thick trailing edge. Stick say 15" on temporarily and then shorten to achieve desired effect before sticking/ painting permanently. 

Regards, David Joyce, GXSDJ 

   

 

On 2016-07-20 08:23, roddyeuropa(at)aol.com wrote:  	  Quote: 	
		   Hi

  

 Since I had my europa repaired it has a tendency to fly one wing down. I suspect this may be due to one wing having been repaired by a professional sailplane repairer (Roger Targett) and this wing being more efficient at generating lift than the 15 year old, not quite so pristine, other wing.

 Questions for the group - 

 1) is there any way I can rig the ailerons to correct this? I suspect that if I adjust the aileron on the wing that drops the ailerons will just centralise slightly down. maybe a small trim tab?

 2) Do others find that their europas will slowly drop a wing if flown hands off? In practice, its not a problem as I have a wing leveler installed, but I would like to correct the problem if I can at source.

  

 Regards

  

 Roddy Kesterton

 G-IKRK

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