OzPilot
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Was there a change in elevator authority between generations? I'm googling, but would like reach out to you guys.
I've been flying the generation 3 mainly, which has been great and hasn't shown me any issue with elevator auth... However today I took out a G2 and the elevator authority before touchdown was quite terrible.
VRB to 8 knot quartering headwind, I maintained 85 knots from mid-final, down to 80-83 knots on short.
As I reduced power to idle just before the threshold, I kept having to creep back the elevator and was quickly at full aft with a still nose down attitude (it would have easily been a heavy nose wheel landing if I continued). Trim was correctly set for the base/final descent and the power wasn't pulled to idle quickly.
I went around on my first landing as I wasn't happy with a full control deflection and nose down attitude.
On the second attempt, I trimmed pitch up somewhat and just overpowered the yoke up to flare and landing with no issue but also very close to full aft on the yoke.
I decided to do another round to test it out some more... On coming back around, I left trim in normal pitch position and landed with power on a little as well as landing at 85 knots.. No issue with elevator trim. (Obviously).
So my question is... Did anything change between gens? Poor rigging? (perhaps not getting full travel?
On another note, a E-Bus warning came up with Alternator 1 popping on base for that last circuit, so perhaps this plane isn't happy.
I've been flying the generation 3 mainly, which has been great and hasn't shown me any issue with elevator auth... However today I took out a G2 and the elevator authority before touchdown was quite terrible.
VRB to 8 knot quartering headwind, I maintained 85 knots from mid-final, down to 80-83 knots on short.
As I reduced power to idle just before the threshold, I kept having to creep back the elevator and was quickly at full aft with a still nose down attitude (it would have easily been a heavy nose wheel landing if I continued). Trim was correctly set for the base/final descent and the power wasn't pulled to idle quickly.
I went around on my first landing as I wasn't happy with a full control deflection and nose down attitude.
On the second attempt, I trimmed pitch up somewhat and just overpowered the yoke up to flare and landing with no issue but also very close to full aft on the yoke.
I decided to do another round to test it out some more... On coming back around, I left trim in normal pitch position and landed with power on a little as well as landing at 85 knots.. No issue with elevator trim. (Obviously).
So my question is... Did anything change between gens? Poor rigging? (perhaps not getting full travel?
On another note, a E-Bus warning came up with Alternator 1 popping on base for that last circuit, so perhaps this plane isn't happy.