Tony,
I have tried single handed rigging with my trigear and the flaps are only
one of the issues. However, I have used a short set of bungies hooked to the
back pip pin and flap holes to hold the flap in position (a plagiarised
idea) and although it needs care the bungie provides a bit of flexibility
when pushing the wing home. A simple solution and it also helps to ensure
the flap does not drop when turning from the vertical to the horizontal.
Hope this helps.
Steve Pitt
G-SMDH
Trigear XS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Renshaw" <tonyrenshaw268@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2011 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: Europa-List: Flap up method for single handed rigging
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> Thanks Fred,Bob Graham and co re flap rigging. I will have electric flaps
> and could therefore rig with the flaps at any position. At the moment they
> will fall right out of the close out and rotate such that the trailing
> edge of the flap can be against the wing, because I don't have the
> outrigger hardware to create an extended stop. I either need to come up
> with an extended stop for my flaps, or rig the wing with the flaps up. Has
> any of the electric flap Tri-gear guys managed this other ways, or have
> any suggestions?
> Reg
> Tony Renshaw
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 21/11/2011, at 3:08 AM, Fred Klein <fklein@orcasonline.com> wrote:
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>> On Nov 20, 2011, at 2:40 AM, Tony Renshaw wrote:
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>>> Once the wing is located it would be nice to be able to push it home
>>> from the wingtip, but the flap will need supporting.
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>> Tony,
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>> With your fixed conventional LG, I assume that you'll be using electric
>> flaps...if that's the case, you have some options on the positioning of
>> the flap tube control during your wing attachment process. If flap
>> control shows flaps retracted, a strap around the wing holding the flaps
>> in the retracted position could be handy.
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>> I make this comment solely from noting that while moving my wings around
>> the shop with the flaps flapping around can be irritating...alas, I have
>> zero experience attaching the wings at a proper airfield.
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>> Fred
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