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KendalSimpson Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 1. "RE: Torqued-Off About Hammers" 06-30-03, 23:51z  Hey Tom Other people will be much more qualified than me to answer you but I'll tell you what I know. First off I think you had a typo. If you got a Lycoming in that thing you should be kicking that left foot so the stick should be in the top Right corner. I found that I needed to add the aileron sooner that I thought I needed to after consistently torquing off at the top of my hammers. I started putting in aileron and some forward stick as soon as I kicked and it helped some. I started kicking earlier to stop the torque effect (I diddn't have enough aileron to stop it) but then I was told I was flying over the top. Something that seemed to work for me was to pull a little power out just as I was starting to kick. It lessened the torque effect and seemed to work. I just flew my new prop for the first time on Saturday and it was much easier to do good hammers with it. The old metal prop weighed 33 lbs. and the new one is only 13 lbs. It also fixed my CG problem so the plane snaps better, spins better etc... I don't know how conventional the pull the power thing is but it seemed to work for me. You just have to make sure you do it at the same time to make is predictable. One more thing it's pretty critical where you look during the hammer. I glance at both wing tips on the vertical (left right left) to set the line (no siteing device on my plane)then I would stare at the left wing for the initial pivot. As the plane pivots you stare at the same spot on the horizon and let the plane rotate around it. so you see left wing, over the nose, right wing. Bam set the vertical line because your looking at the wing tip instead of the ground. You can also tell when the airplane torques off. This might all be bad advice as most of it was self taught but I Hope this helps. Those of you who really know what your doing tell us how you do it. Kendal Simpson www.littletootaerobatics.com Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Torqued-Off About Hammers    TomParsons       06-30-03              RE: Torqued-Off About Hammers    KendalSimpson       06-30-03       1            RE: Torqued-Off About Hammers    TomParsons       07-01-03       2         RE: Torqued-Off About Hammers    Patty_Wagstaff       07-02-03       3            RE: Torqued-Off About Hammers    TomParsons       07-02-03       4

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