User Manual

GRAUPNER GmbH & Co. KG D-73230 KIRCHHEIM/TECK GERMANY
Modifications reserved. No liability for printing errors 12/2010
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Control surface travels
Ailerons 25 mm up 10 mm down
Elevator 10 mm up 10 mm down
Rudder 10 mm left 10 mm right
Thermal setting
Ailerons 1.5 mm down
Flaps 3 mm down
Speed setting
Ailerons 2 mm up
Flaps 1.5 mm up
Butterfly (Crow) setting
Ailerons 18 mm up
Flaps 65 mm down
Elevator 3 mm down
(max. means trailing edge or bottom edge of fuselage)
If you cannot obtain the stated control surface travels by adjusting the mechanical linkages,
use your transmitter’s DUAL RATE function to set them.
Important:
When installing and setting up the control surface linkages it is vital to ensure that
they work smoothly, are able to carry out their full movement - including trim travel -
without being impeded, and are not mechanically obstructed at any point.
When you move the rudder stick to the right, the rudder should also deflect to the
right (left stick: left rudder). If you pull the elevator stick back towards you, the trailing
edge of both tailplane panels should deflect up (stick forward: elevator down). Move
the aileron stick to the right, and the right-hand aileron should deflect up, the left-
hand aileron down. When you pull the Butterfly (Crow) stick back towards you, both
ailerons should rise, and both flaps should fall. It is best to assign the flaps to a slider,
and apply electronic limits to their movement, so that the stated travels are obtained
at full travel of the slider.
The first flight
“Old hands” will now be waiting for the first opportunity to take their new Alpina 3001 Champ
ELEKTRO to the flying site, where they will test-fly it in the accustomed manner, carry out
any minor corrections required, and then, we hope, have many hours of pleasure flying their
new model.
The following is intended to help the less experienced modeller to test-fly and trim the model
correctly, and to exploit the model's fine performance to the full.
Test flying
Every flying machine, from the humble chuck glider to the full-size aircraft, has to be test-
flown and trimmed after completion; your Alpina 3001 Champ ELEKTRO is no exception.
The slightest inaccuracy in construction can lead to a minor variation in the model’s flight
characteristics and control response. Test-flying is the process of optimising the CG, and of
fine-tuning the model’s control response.