Ok, This is the problem. As Gordy earlier stated the Pike has a bellcrank with an unusually long arm at the pushrod side compared to the pivot side. The problem this has created, as well as putting more load on my 368 servo, is it doesn't allow for enough down mix to be generated at the end of the flap travel.It seems like it gets behind the mix curve. With every other glider I've owned I always had too much elevator at the end of Flap travel and this was easily adjusted out with the 2nd mix for elevator to flap.
Now, my understanding is the 2nd mix point is a % of the first mix so how do I get say a 120% of elevator travel for 2nd mix. I only run about 75 degrees of flap travel and don't want to back that off any further. My elevator EPA is set at as much as is possible with out making the pitch sensitivity more than most would like to handle ( with the exception of Daryl barely move the stick Perkins.) I did try setting the EPA to 150% just to see what happened and it added only about a degree of addition el. travel at full flap. Hardly enough to solve the problem.
Also adding more compensation to the first mix may fix the end of travel problem but it has too much compensation for the first half of travel.
I hate having to thumb in down elevator ten feet from the LZ.
Stylus boy( Tom Hoopes ) or Old School Stylus Boy ( Gordon Jennings ) are you out there?


David Zucker


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