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Subject: Re: Europa-List: Trim Tabs
From: Paul & Vanessa Munford <pmdental@btinternet.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:49:26

Any chance of diagram or photos  of your trim system ? sounds good & simple. 
Paul Munford kit 625 trigear
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Kennedy" <Justin@systemwise.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 12:01 PM
Subject: Europa-List: Trim Tabs


> <Justin@systemwise.co.uk>
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> Trim Tabs
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> My aircraft was crying out for aileron trim. Obviously a passenger makes a 
> big difference and with my Europa as the speed increases there is a slight 
> but increasing role to the right, just enough to be annoying. I need to 
> adjust the trim once the aircraft has settled into the cruise. So I added 
> aileron trim. I added an "L" bracket with a 2 inch arm to the fork at the 
> bottom of the stick to the right. I then put the smallest sailors jam 
> cleat on the face of the seat under my left leg. I thin bungee cord from 
> the tip of the "L" bracket behind the stick and into the vertically 
> mounted jam cleat. This has proved a great success. Once settled  in the 
> cruise I just pull the bungee up with my left hand about 1/4 inch and push 
> the bungee forward to lock it off. The adjustment is very precise, as good 
> as a wheel and I can compensate for any weight of passenger or badly 
> distributed load.
>
> Justin
> Justin Kennedy
> Europa Classic G-ZTED
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