catmandu
Well Known Member
Uncharacteristically, after reading a few threads and not finding a similar situation, I am going to shoot from the hip with less than total information available. Please be gentle.
I flew an RV-9a with a relatively dirty aerodynamic snapshot: less than streamlined but secure cowl, rough paint, no fairings or pants on the gear, yet to be calibrated (by me, anyway) pitot static system. When I stalled it with full flaps at altitude to set my indicated airspeed for landing, it was an as advertised docile stall, but enough noise behind me to take a look. Seemed as if the upward deflected trailing edge of the elevator was rather, ahem, excited. Not much feedback in the stick.
Typical for the configuration?
I flew an RV-9a with a relatively dirty aerodynamic snapshot: less than streamlined but secure cowl, rough paint, no fairings or pants on the gear, yet to be calibrated (by me, anyway) pitot static system. When I stalled it with full flaps at altitude to set my indicated airspeed for landing, it was an as advertised docile stall, but enough noise behind me to take a look. Seemed as if the upward deflected trailing edge of the elevator was rather, ahem, excited. Not much feedback in the stick.
Typical for the configuration?