Wing incidence

[Fresnoredneck]

Hi everybody, can anybody tell me wing incidence and dihedral for the Escapade, cant find any details on those issues in the paperwork on the aircraft I brought. Any guidance would be appreciated.

TIA

Rich

[danerazz]

The incidence is set at 0* during construction by leveling the horizontal stab to the fuselage spar carry-throughs. The dihedral is set by the strut length and the wing strut attach points, which are positioned by measuring from the end of the spar instead of measuring an angle. I cannot find anything on what the dihedral angle actually is, but the factory can probably tell you. The adjustment on one of the strut points is to adjust for wing-heavy flight.

Hope this helps.

[FlyerChief]

Dihedral is 1.5 degrees.

Check out this thread from 2010...

http://www.wingsforum.com/viewtopic.php ... ral#p24263

Dan

[Fresnoredneck]

Hi Dan, appreciated, we checked today and could only get it to 1 degree so guess we have some adjusting to do. Another question I have that you may be able to shed some light on is that there is in the manual 12 to 18 inches shift in arm on pilot and passenger, I can only get 12 to 17 inches, seat transit is only 5 inches??

Just getting my knowledge of the bird up to speed.

TIA

Rich

[FlyerChief]

Every plane is slightly different since they are individually built according to the builder's preference, but if the instructions are followed according to the manual, I believe it to be fairly common that only six of the seven holes drilled in the seat rail are actually usable. I am not near my plane right now, so I can't verify it. Maybe someone else can check it for you.
Dan