It's been my experience that using flaperons for landing is a bad thing. They do slow you down very well, but they also kill you aileron response at low speeds. Basically, if you think about the geometry of it, you can end up with a situation of cranking the stick over and having the aileron on the outside wing fully down, and the aileron on the inside wing in neutral...kind of a good recipe for adverse yaw. It can really be a problem if you are coming in for a landing and a big gust comes that you have to correct for.
Until recently, my flapperoned planes all had full span ailerons, but I recently got a sloper with tip ailerons only. I found that the spoilerons actually worked better this way in this configuration. Perhaps it was just this particular plane, but using the spoilerons required no up elevator compensation. BTW, my experience with this is just on slope gliders. Flying an electric on a flat field might be a different story, especially if there's not much wind. If you do use flaperons, I think I would use them in conjunction with a lot more rudder control, to increase roll response. At 12:50 PM 8/25/02 -0700, Kent Miller, CMC wrote: >Hi All, > >I would appreciate any comments on pros and cons of Spoilerons and >Flaperons. I have a couple of hotliners and have set them up with Spoilerons >( they have ailerons outboard ). I have an SR X-250 and the like ( full span >ailerons ) and have set them up with Flaperons. Is this the best >combination? > >TIA > >Kent Miller > > >RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ____________________________________________________________________________ Brett Jaffee: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brett's Slope and Power Home Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~jaffee OnTheWay Quake 3 server utility: http://www.planetquake.com/ontheway The Unoffical Extra 300 Home Page: http://bjaffee.tripod.com/extra300/ ____________________________________________________________________________ RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
