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Elevator balance

Thu, Aug 18 2005 @ 21:16 in Switzerland
Contributed by: Mick
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> I asked Van's about balancing the elevators, and they
> recommended just putting the counterweights on, and not
> worrying about balancing it. A bit to heavy is apparently
> not a problem.
>

Ideally, the elevators would be perfectly balanced. If the
counterweights are too heavy, the elevator will tend to move towards
the nose up position. The amount of nose up force created by the too
heavy counterweight will vary linearly with the amount of g you
pull. In other words, having the nose heavy will reduce the amount
of stick force required to pull g. RVs already have quite light
stick forces at aft CG. I would not want to further reduce the stick
force per g.

Kevin Horton

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