EASA AD on SZD-55-1 "ATA 27 – Flight Controls – Elevator Control System / Vertical Tail – Inspection" Issued

FWIW, this may be one of those situations when "It goes without saying,"
doesn't, so...

A positive control check isn't - or shouldn't be - "merely a control
resistance" check; it's (easily - and should be) also a "control position
check," as everyone who's ever built flying model airplanes intuitively knows.
Use the next unflyable day - or boring day at work - and play with paper
airplanes to help burn this "goes without saying" truism into your neurons!

Bob W.

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On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 10:06:28 -0600, BobW wrote:

Use the next unflyable day - or boring day at work - and play with paper
airplanes to help burn this "goes without saying" truism into your
neurons!

Or, for something fractionally more advanced than folded paper, try
making one or two of Chuck Marcos 'Easy Mini' catapult gliders. These
will teach you a lot about control surface effects and also fly well
enough to vanish upwards if you launch then into thermals.

See the AMA magazine "Model Aviation", May, 1999, pages 45-48 for a full-
size plan and instructions.

If you can't get hold of the magazine article, my website has copies of
the plan in various formats along with information about the tools and
materials needed to build them plus guidance on building and flying:
https://www.gregorie.org/freeflight/easymini/


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