Generally you want ailerons up and elevator up. The idea is that when the ailerons go up you loose lift on the wings. In order to get the lift back you need up elevator. The result is the airplane flys at a slightly nose up attitude which produces higher drag, hence the "air brake". <br> <br> Start by setting your ailerons up 3-5 degrees. Then flying high enough to be safe, at or near idle. Turn on the air brake. It should start to loose altitude. By trial and error you will need to set the elevator such that when you switch the air brake on, it keeps going without significant climb or dive.<br> <br> You need to be aware of a couple things. First the braking effect is not huge. Second, you don't want to go too far with this because when the air brake is on, the wing is at higher angle of attack, which means its closer to stall. Bad idea on a windy day.<br> <br> I played with this a little and
was never impressed with the results. Its not even programmed any more. I've had much better luck with an idle down switch. I fly YS and find after the engine is warmed up and flying, it will idle much lower. I have a switch set (again by trial and error) that reduces idle on final approach.<br> <br> Ed<br> <br> <br><br><b><i>Bill Markovitz <wdmarko@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> I'm interested in using the air brake function for<br>slower and more controlled landings. Any suggestions<br>for a starting point on the aileron and elevator<br>throws would be appreciated. Is it better to have the<br>ailerons up and the elevator down or the ailerons down<br>and the elevator up?<br><br>Thanks, Bill :)<br><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam
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