Congratulations John! If your W&B is correct, the most likely culprit is going to be the incidence of the horizontal stab. I had the same issue (except mine wanted to dive at the ground). I flew for several years with some rather large trim wedges glued to the trailing edge of the elevator to correct the stick pressures and allow my trim tab to do it's job. That was eventually fixed when I built the new tail and corrected the incidence.
If you look at the air to air photos of my KR from the 2002 Red Oak Gathering, the photo of me rolling away from the photo plane (over half way down the page) shows the wedges on the bottom of the elevator. Congrats again. Jeff Scott Los Alamos, NM > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 at 8:42 PM > From: "John Bouyea via KRnet" <krnet at list.krnet.org> > To: KRnet <krnet at list.krnet.org> > Subject: KR> Stick imbalance > > During my entire flight today, I had to hold forward pressure on the stick. > This made my takeoff more exciting than it needed to be while I figured that > issue out. Landing became more an issue of reducing some forward pressure as > opposed to increasing back pressure. I'll head into published readings about > this imbalance and specifically how to cure it. > > > > I'm pretty sure my weight and balance is correct and with pilot and fuel > loaded, I'm 3.5" aft of the forward-most CG. That leaves the trim tab > "neutral position" is set incorrectly or it's just too darn small. I'm > taking tools to MMV tomorrow to make what adjustments I can before further > flight. > > > > Can anyone comment on facing & curing the same problem in their KR? Thank > you. > > > > John Bouyea > > N5391M/ KR2 > > OR81/ Hillsboro, OR
