Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #15613
From: <RWolf99@aol.com>
Sender: Marvin Kaye <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Reducing Pitch Sensitivity
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 12:01:16 -0400
To: <lml>
Moving the elevator attachment point inwards -- towards the axis of rotation
-- is a good way to reduce the pitch sensitivity.  You accomplish two things
that way.  You get less elevator motion for a given stick displacement, and
it takes more force to get it.  (Actually, stick force is the issue more than
stick displacement.)

Best of all, the modification is minimal and is easily reversible.  You can
move the attachment point back where it was and leave the empty hole there if
you don't get the results you want.

I would think that 3/4 inch would be okay.  You might actually put in two
holes -- a hole as close as you possibly can to the axis of rotation and
another in between that one and the original one.  (I don't know how much
room you have in the IV's)  Choose during the flight test phase.

For the record, I have flown two Lancair 360's.  One was way too pitch
sensitive and the other was very, very nice.  Yes, the sensitive one had a
small tail but I think it was more of a CG issue (light stick forces) than a
tail size issue (pitch damping).  The big-tail airplane had a very far
forward CG.

- Rob Wolf
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