Pedals2Paddles
Cleared for Takeoff
Oddity we saw on a 172 today. The left flap tracks appear to be too high. With the flaps up, the flap is a little higher than it should be. And you can see the track is too high where it is mounted. This would probably cause a bit of left wing down. Everything is secure and solid. Nothing is bent. It just looks like some idiot installed it too high.
The right aileron happens to have a trim tab applying wing down trim. I would imagine it is there to compensate for the flap being a little off.
Is this an airworthiness condition that an IA would/could/should fail? It has been like this for what is probably 20 years now. So apparently it works fine.
The right aileron happens to have a trim tab applying wing down trim. I would imagine it is there to compensate for the flap being a little off.
Is this an airworthiness condition that an IA would/could/should fail? It has been like this for what is probably 20 years now. So apparently it works fine.