ail control setup

[Troy A. Newman]

Look at the pictures in the KF.

The servos are not moving...they are at neutral position. What people tend
to do is use subtrim to get the aileron aligned with the wing and then their
linkage looks like the "No" box. In both sets of picture the control
surfaces are at neutral and the servos are at center.

Troy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "twortkoetter" <twortkoetter at yahoo.com>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 4:56 PM
Subject: ail control setup


I just received my Jan K-factor yesterday, great timing since I am re-doing
my ail control setup.  I was one of the ones that have my dual rates at 40%
low and 50% high so I certainly found Troy's article interesting.  This will
be my second year flying intermediate and I sure have a lot to learn,
especially when it comes to airplane setup not to mention flying... but
that's all part of the fun.

Now to the question, which way should I mount the servos, should the control
arm face the leading edge or the trailing edge?  I had it set up with the
servos facing the trailing edge to make the linkage the shortest possible
but I am going to go from 2-56 music wire to c.f. rods and don't know if the
distance to small.  I could flip the servos and have more room but should I
keep the linkages as short as possible or is it not as important due to the
stiffness of the c.f.

I am also having a hard time picturing what Troy was saying about the
tangent line when it comes to attaching to the servo, could someone explain
it in lay mans terms?

Thanks,
Tim Wortkoetter
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