wrote in message Deb, ease up for
pete's sake. I didn't mean that the feet weren't on the rudder pedals, ....
If your airplane requires constant rudder pressure to center the ball
during normal cruise, something is wrong.

Didn't mean to sound heavy ;-). Actually, nothing is wrong with my airplane.
It flies as it should, but I have wing tanks that are operated on right or
left, never both. As my fuel burns, I have to compensate with my control
inputs. I try to compensate this by using the tank that has the most weight
on that side (typically my passenger side, if occupied) As I posted earlier,
the controls in a Luscombe are so sensitive that the pilot hardly notices
the correction.

The 8A with a fuselage tank doesn't have this problem, but a stock version
is so light that it has to be dead calm to remove your feet from the rudders
for any length of time. I have trouble with my feet cramping or falling
asleep on really long crosscountries.

Deb

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1946 Luscombe 8A (His)
1948 Luscombe 8E (Hers)
1954 Cessna 195B, restoring (Ours)
Jasper, Ga. (JZP)