Another Question

[patterndude at attbi.com]

I'll bet the stab is twisted.  Those thin Focus stabs can get twisted.  Check 
it out carefully.  it might be a warp so you'll have to check at several 
places.
--Lance
> Since the list is pretty quite it just might be a good time to throw another 
> plane problem that has been hurting my little brain lately.  
> 
> A friend has a Focus and flying the Intermediate pattern.  He is doing quite 
> well but a few days ago the plane was put through some paces that required more 
> outside manuevering than the Int. schedule.  This is when a strange and blatant 
> problem became evident.  
> 
> Imagine the plane flying from left to right, str and level.  Push to a one half 
> outside loop or bunt.  Plane tracks perfectly thru two thirds of the half loop 
> then a little prior to being wings level headed right to left, the planes nose 
> begins to move toward the flightline by twenty degrees or more.  Basically it 
> corkscrews to the planes right wing during outside loops but only begins its 
> deviation in the last third or quarter of the half loop.  Ideas???
> 
> Dan
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