"Anno v. Heimburg" wrote in message
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Thomas Borchert wrote:

Ok, you got me curious. No default position in all Cessnas I have flown.
Not in the Bo. Nor in the Tobago. Not in the Cirrus nor the DA-40 or the
-20. Nor any other plane I can remember INCLUDING the big airliners in
MSFS.

The position where the control surfaces align with the stabilizer, that
is,
no deflection upwards or downwards. At least that's what I interpreted the
expression to mean. I freely admit I'm clueless, though.

Which, depending on how the airplane is designed, may or may not result in
the desired force from the elevator to keep the aircraft in level flight
with the Cg somewhere within range.

I would suspect that on a lot of aircraft with flying tails (e.g. T-18 which
is one example that I have flown) , some deflection between the elevator and
the trim would be necessary to trim properly during all normal cruise when
the Cg is within the limits. And I would further suspect that whoever
designed the aircraft was aware of that fact, and would have set the limits
of the elevator travel with that in mind.


NB that I'm not saying that this position is necessarily marked anywhere,
nor that it is relevant to actually flying the plane.


I'll agree with that.

On the other hand, Captian Kirk frequently took the Enterprise into the
Neutral Zone when he suspected that the Romulans were threating the
Federation.

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