Graeme, I can tell you that you can fly with one flap up &
one down! I am ashamed to say (but too old to be too
ashamed - having seen that pretty much everyone makes some
sort of cock up if they carry on flying long enough!),
that I managed to rig my mono with the flap pin on one
side in front of the flap socket. It looked normal on walk
around, but proved very entertaining when I put gear up
and only one flap came up, the other staying half down. It
wasn't too much of a problem although certainly would have
been had I been doing say 40kts. And just to say that your
near name sake who started this thread is a very sane and
very experienced builder responsible for numerous Europa
mods, who has enormous experience of the development of
the Europa. His remarks are worth taking seriously
Regards, David Joyce, G-XSDJ
"graeme bird" <graeme@gdbmk.co.uk> wrote:
><graeme@gdbmk.co.uk>
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> Is it a stall? my first thought was i would probably be
>putting the wheel away to get some climb about there;
>what if a flap pin was a bit short or the flap one side
>moved out board and only one was brought up?
> Certainly those first few flights are risky even with
>the best inspections.
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> As for saying one wrong sweep when sanding the leading
>edge will radically affect the stall characteristics, is
>that true or help our cause? Perhaps a little alarmist -
>no sane builder is going to put a flat on it.
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> Graeme Bird
> G-UMPY
> Mono Classic/XS 912S/Woodcomp 3000/3W
> Newby: 105 hours 26 months on the Mono
> g@gdbmk.co.uk
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