Hi, does anyone have any ideas on this?
My '67 235 is a great plane, but I've noticed a few odd things and can't quite figure out what's going on. First, when I fly it all trimmed out and hands off, straight ahead, the ball sits a bit to the left. If I input left rudder it turns left, so with neutral rudder going straight ahead it seems to be in a bit of a skid. The ball is centered on the ground. It's hard to tell where the rudder trim is because the indicator looks different depending on where you're looking from (parallax), but I think it's centered. The other thing is that when the pilots rudder pedals are centered, the copilots have the right rudder in quite a ways. The shop said they checked the rigging. I think that would have been at the last annual about a year ago, when I first bought it.
It also seems to be about 8-10kts less than it should be for given power settings, but Id need to check that more carefully. It has a Hartzell top-prop 3-blade, which is supposed to give you the same cruise but better climb.
Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Steve
My '67 235 is a great plane, but I've noticed a few odd things and can't quite figure out what's going on. First, when I fly it all trimmed out and hands off, straight ahead, the ball sits a bit to the left. If I input left rudder it turns left, so with neutral rudder going straight ahead it seems to be in a bit of a skid. The ball is centered on the ground. It's hard to tell where the rudder trim is because the indicator looks different depending on where you're looking from (parallax), but I think it's centered. The other thing is that when the pilots rudder pedals are centered, the copilots have the right rudder in quite a ways. The shop said they checked the rigging. I think that would have been at the last annual about a year ago, when I first bought it.
It also seems to be about 8-10kts less than it should be for given power settings, but Id need to check that more carefully. It has a Hartzell top-prop 3-blade, which is supposed to give you the same cruise but better climb.
Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Steve
