The Murphy Builders Site

The light bulb finally went on yesterday in regards to aileron trim.
When I'm flying solo I have a noticeably heavy left wing even with extra
gas in the right tank. The thing is that if I hold the flaperons
perfectly faired with the wing, the plane flies straight and true. If I
let go of the stick the right aileron drops a bit from faired and the
right wing rises. Finally realized that if I close the throttle and let
go of the stick, the plane again flies straight and true again. I'll
bet anyone out there with a couterclockwise rotating prop (seen from the
cockpit) has a heavy right wing... Some of it may be torque but I think
this is a characteristic of flaperons where the propwash helix is
deflecting the flap(eron) near the fuselage. My prop rotates the
American way - clockwise as seen from the cockpit.
Ken