Warren, you don't bend the trailing edge every time you fly. You get it right once and for all, and leave it alone. I had my coupe re-rigged early, after buying it, back to neutral. Some time later, I bent the trailing edge of the aileron to trim it. After I had the aileron rod ends changed. It takes very very little to trim the pressure off an aileron. I have not noticed the need to trim every time I fly solo or have a passenger, it isn't that sensitive to change.
The bend is so slight, that you can't see it. You really have to think to bend it in the correct direction for what you want to accomplish. You have an elevator trim tab. The two little springs on the elevator trim tab hold it all the way in one direction, up or down I don't remember, if the long trim cable breaks. This will keep you from having dangerous elevator flutter. If the cable breaks, and your springs are already broken or so rusty that they break, and you get elevator flutter; I heard that the thing to do is, "to fly slow as possible and it will not flutter so bad so you can get back to the airport." Check your elevator trim tab springs, on the hinge, and if they are 50 years old, change em'. Grover Barfield Ercoupe 99398 ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
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