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