Reply to Graham Clarke
>>you don't get full flap either> Don't follow that,<<
Not surprised. I'm not sure I understand it fully either.
When first set up we had 26 deg flap travel, but with the original horn FL21 set
to give max movement. When finally rigged (almost ) ready to fly we found we had
only 24 deg, we had to fit the new extended FL19 to get fulltravel. My guess is
that the accumulated weight/friction /backlash/loads caused by the outriggers
conspire against the flexibility of the mechanism to reduce the flap travel.
BTW we use a cheap 2 ton car trolley jack with a bolt on adapter to jack up the
plane on the outer ends of the swing arm pivot tube. Dave Dufton's idea.
Graham
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