Hi Tony,
My sticks are one piece bent tubes rather than the earlier welded
version. I do not think that makes any difference. Anyway, my sticks are
installed with the longer of the sections down. It works fine for me.
However, do not make the mistake I made which was to install the sticks
symmetrically with the axis of the crank parallel to the centerline.
Later when I sat in the cockpit, I found that I had less travel to the
left than to the right due to the stick hitting my left leg. I then had
to rebolt the stick with an anti-clockwise twist of about 25 - 30
degrees to get equal travel. The passenger stick needs twist in the
other direction of course.
Cheers, John
Mono XS, N262WF
Tony Renshaw wrote:
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>Gidday,
>'Well I would have thought this to be an easy thing to figure out. I should
>first let on that only after I have masked and painted, abraded and fitted
>the spacers (with a gentle tap or two from a hefty mallet for an
>interference fit ), I now read on the Europa Web Site that you put the
>stick with the shorter of the 2 straight sections down. Bugger. I would
>never have thought this, and I enquired of others who have built and are
>flying, well one person anyway, and he attempted to check, but restricted
>by control boots, lack of measure onhand etc. concluded to put the long
>length down as it provides the maximum clearance for stick back from seats
>etc. This seemed pretty logical to me too. Logic defied it seems. So,
>before I undo my work, does it really matter, and if so, why??? Standing by
>please.
>Reg
>Tony Renshaw
>Sydney, Australia.
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