I read somewhere (I can't recall, sorry) that basically you speed up a couple of knots, let go of the stick, and then bump it forward and see what happens (being ready to grab it in a hurry). the the same with elevator, rudder, and aileron. Speed up a couple of more knots, try it again.
The idea is that you can have a "metastable" situation where there is no flutter until a gust of wind comes by, at which point you're 30 knots over where it can happen, so it happens in a hurry. Creating the disturbance yourself prevents it from being a metastable condition.
Dustin
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Ernest Christley
<echristley@nc.rr.com> wrote:
On 07/03/2011 03:24 PM, Kelly Troyer wrote:
Ernest,
The procedure is to test with many steps increasing speed in small increments always ready
to reduce throttle and increase AOA at the slightest indication of flutter..............
Dang! I was hoping somebody had come up with something better than that.
Oh, well. At least that gives me a "reason" to take up parachuting 8*)