On 6-Oct-2003, "Steven Barnes" wrote:

One thing that bothers me about the 180 we're getting is that it seems to
take almost full left rudder trim to keep the plane tracking straight with
2 people up front & both tanks full. Is that something that's easily
fixed?


The first thing I would do is to make sure that the "ball" (of the turn
coordinator or turn indicator) is centered when the airplane is sitting
level on the ground. We had the same issue (full left rudder trim required
to center the ball in cruise) with our Arrow, and discovered that the turn
coordinator instrument was slightly rotated in the panel, apparently because
the mounting screws had somehow loosened. Easy to fix, and probably added a
knot or three to cruise speed, since centering the ball prior to the fix
actually resulted in a slight slip.
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-Elliott Drucker