Thursday - September 16, 2004

Every now and then someone asks me what I am using as a skeg on my ICON, this time it was the WinchDoc and I knew it was time for a picture and a blog.  Here's a neat little setup I have been using for about one season now, easy to obtain, easy to make, easy to mount and remove (I fly F3J too), and is very effective.  I only use this nose skeg, I do not use a belly skeg.

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Start with a Tim McCann Tape On Skeg, shave off the post and cut down the blade as shown on the picture above.  I like to first attach the skeg with some wing tape (that won't pull off the paint on the nosecone), and then use strapping tape over that.  If you don't use strapping tape you will shear the skeg off on landing, thus shedding parts and not helping your landing score at all.  With a proper landing approach, this will stop my ICON dead in its tracks where ever I place the nose on the ground.