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Old 04-19-2016, 05:12 PM
Ron B. Ron B. is offline
 
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Default Pitch trim travel

Well not much life but it's still life. Powered up the elevator trim only today, all else was turned off. First try nothing, that's a good start but I then noticed that the master switch did not have the ground run. That makes a difference.
Now for my question, I found a lot of nose up trim, tab probably came down 2 1/2 to 3" but very little trim down travel. The tab might have gone up 1/2". Does this sound correct?
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Old 04-19-2016, 11:20 PM
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If it's anything like my -9A, you'll need very little down travel. On my RV I ended up with 3/4 up, 1/4 down.
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Old 04-19-2016, 11:27 PM
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After installing the revised push rod you still get a lot of nose up trim and very little nose down trim.

Talking to Van's they said the flaps create a lot of nose down force when deployed and that's why you need so much more nose up trim.

My numbers are very similar to yours. Measuring mine, I get just under 7/8" of travel for nose down trim.
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