Svein,
you are quite correct.Annex -E page 4 in the back of the book states 25-27
Deg.s max. I will have to look those over more closely as now I have to do
like you and "close up the TOOO long travel hole.
Al Stills
A095
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sidsel & Svein Johnsen" <sidsel.svein@oslo.online.no>
Subject: SV: Europa-List: Flap Travel
<sidsel.svein@oslo.online.no>
>
> Alan,
>
> Your message stated that you are expecting 30 degrees of flap. Actually,
on
> the trigear the max. flap setting shall be between 25 and 27 degrees, ref.
> Annex E, page 4 (in my trigear manual, which is Issue 1, 30 May 1998).
You
> may have been mislead by the instruction in chapter 28, step 2, to mark
the
> slots in the fuselage sides to approx. 30 degrees down, and subsequent
> instruction to cut the slot to allow full movement of the cross-tube
(which
> in my case meant to approx. 32 degrees before the stopper on the flap
hinge
> arm limited it (I had not read Annex E at that time!). For those not yet
at
> this stage: Mark your manual re. this, so you avoid cutting the slot too
> far down and having to close it up with bid and flox, as I had to do!
>
> My actuator has the same travel as yours - 98.0 mm or just shy of 3 7/8
> inches - which gives me a flap deflection of 25.7 degrees.
>
> With 24.5 degrees, and assuming everything else is fine, you may ask
Europa
> whether this is acceptable - my guess is that it will be OK (I assume you
> are using a digital protractor. Had you used an old fashioned mechanical
> one, you would probably have measured 25 degrees and had no worries to
begin
> with!).
>
> Good luck!
>
> Regards,
> Svein
> A225 - now in Norway
>
>
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