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Originally Posted by oldE
He used to fly and instruct in Challenger IIs, a high wing, fabric covered pusher propeller ultralight. He confessed that one time, after flying his Zenair for a couple of weeks, getting back into the Challenger II he landed immediately after take off to check for faults in the controls. He also mentioned the Challenger demanded constant rudder inputs. I suspect possibly due to the pusher configuration the disturbed air from the prop immediately hits the tail.
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i would think that the Challenger pusher prop puts higher air pressures on the rudder
since it is non hydraulic powered control linkage.. would feel really heavy compared to a regular front prop plane?
And where a regular prop plane would have lighter rudder at slower air speeds.
The Pusher prop would still have heavier rudder at slower airspeeds if high engine power setting is high?
I can imagine thinking the linkage is binding when experiencing it at slow speed high power and aren't used to it.