My family is having a blast (without me) going over to Ozark and riding / taking lessons on my 14yr old daughter's new horse. I'll email you some pics. Traci bought a digital camera so I'll be able to take pictures of airplane equip also. I'm looking at -22f right now here at the end of the world.
I've never really thought about the trim working in reverse or at least to that extent. And I'm not putting the embarrased symbol here either. Thanks 56alpha, for mentioning the basics and Joe for explaining. At 15 ft off the ground Throttle was my immediate reaction, luckily the trim was clean. After I climbed 500 ft then I adjusted the trim. Just guessing, I might have started one direction and then reversed, looking for the desired results. Anyway, I got it right and it was a long 40 min flight thinking about how to land. I crossed midfield probably 700 ft AGL. And radio'd the supercub on the strip to get off. He said to give him a few minutes, that he really needed to get a load out first. When I said my controls were jammed, he scrammbled. Anyway, I put the trim back to neutral like it was when I took off. Eased off the throttle and was coming in nice, but with the strip being up hill, the nose was pointed a few degrees at the ground even in level flight. It's been awhile for remembering the details, but just as the mains were about to touch, I gunned it (raising the nose) and then pulled power stalling it right into a 3 point. The alder limb was jammed so hard we couldn't get it out by hand. We ended up sawing vertical and splitting it in half. Oh, if i was home I could add a picture that we took. THE END!
Thanks for the discussion, obviously I got something out of it.
