Andre Poirier

Hello everyone, this is my first post about the DC3, I started flying the Three since release and have a lot of fun with it. The post about the tailwheel full castor vs tail wheel lock operations just provided an important answer, just too bad it cannot be worked from a keyboard command. A question I had about aileron rigging send me to you : the DC3 having been designed in the thirties did suffer from early disregard for ailerons equal drag caracteristics for pilots then were used to crank in rudder and ailerons. In fact it was bad enough to suprise anyone used to modern aircrafts at first. On the other hand, it was very useful during cross wind takeoffs and landings. In a 90 degree cross wind, holding full ailerons into wind caused enough aileron drag to keep the aircraft practically rolling straight down the runway, of course as you accelerate the amount of aileron input had to be reduced up to the point of liftoff, where a normal crosswind liftoff on one main wheel would occur. This said I noticed the model aircraft does not have this tendency and looking in Plane maker I notice a ten dgrees difference between the up vs the down travel of the ailerons. Does that actually reflect the original Douglas rigging for the ailerons ? Thanks for your attention, Andre.