And yes the pro modelers are 20mm wide

You where right, those servo brackets are plastic.. I hadn’t looked closely, just remember the manual mentions aluminum.

I see the bracket has a long side and a short side. My Futabas will fit on the short side with the long screwed to the plywood, which should clear fine. Honestly however the plastic pieces look rather weak and fiddly needing 8 screws and locknuts per servo. A couple basswood blocks epoxied to the plates might work better....

Thinking this through, there is another solution if Pilot doesn't have better control horns.

The usual solution for an offset control horn is to offset the servo arm to match. I am not going to go buy offset horns but we can get pretty close by angling the arms at neutral.

I guesstimated some number in the servo calculator spreadsheet and it comes up with something like 5-10degrees forward angle on the servo arm at neutral to get equal throws, assuming everything else is square. I can take some measurements at home and refine this.

I may just do this, and since I am using sbus servos I can reprogram the neutrals and not have to mess with subtrims and ATVs.

Heres what i ended up with works great.

I'm working on doing something similar... I tried making those plastic angle brackets work but they just dont. the servo will only clear if you mount it on the short side, but if you try that there is not enough room to get a nut and blot on both servo screws.


The plastic brackets are a bit flimsy anyway (and having to use 32 nuts and bolts to mount 4 servos!!)... its a it more work but the hardwood blocks area better approach.


Just annoying so much of this kit needs reengineering.........

Originally Posted by jharkin

I'm working on doing something similar... I tried making those plastic angle brackets work but they just dont. the servo will only clear if you mount it on the short side, but if you try that there is not enough room to get a nut and blot on both servo screws.


The plastic brackets are a bit flimsy anyway (and having to use 32 nuts and bolts to mount 4 servos!!)... its a it more work but the hardwood blocks area better approach.


Just annoying so much of this kit needs reengineering.........

Yep got my stabs mounted jad to elongate tje holes on 3 of the 4 didnt line up with the the blind nuts at all. And cut 5/8" off the rudder horns to clear the elevators.

Originally Posted by jharkin

I'm working on doing something similar... I tried making those plastic angle brackets work but they just dont. the servo will only clear if you mount it on the short side, but if you try that there is not enough room to get a nut and blot on both servo screws.


The plastic brackets are a bit flimsy anyway (and having to use 32 nuts and bolts to mount 4 servos!!)... its a it more work but the hardwood blocks area better approach.


Just annoying so much of this kit needs reengineering.........

Yep got my stabs mounted jad to elongate tje holes on 3 of the 4 didnt line up with the the blind nuts at all. And cut 5/8" off the rudder horns to clear the elevators.

Greetings everyone! I received my Pitts the first week of December and after a quick damage check (luckily no shipping damage) I put it away until this morning. Anyway, I just started on the build and will post my progress along with any questions I have as I go. I’m in no rush since I don’t have any electronics or engine yet although I plan on running a DA70.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Hey everyone, so after reading through the thread I figured the first thing I would look at is how the control horns lineup with the hinge line on the elevator. Of course mine were off just like everyone else’s. What I decided to do was simply trim a portion of the balsa back about an 1/8 of an inch so the centerline of the control horn holes sits directly over the hinge line. There is a balsa seam under the covering (pointed out with the pencil) that, when putting the leading edge of the control horn on that line, places the rod holes directly over the hinge line. I used a laser to verify.

Excellent! ......

Has anyone done their flying wires onthe tail or throttle servo setups yet. I have concerns about the wire hardware. The bolts for the hardware on the vert stabolzer just thread into the hardware on the other side. Is it aconcern for these to come loose? Or should i get longer bolts and nylock nuts. Would also like to see some pics of throttle servo setups.

Originally Posted by scooby61

Has anyone done their flying wires onthe tail or throttle servo setups yet. I have concerns about the wire hardware. The bolts for the hardware on the vert stabolzer just thread into the hardware on the other side. Is it aconcern for these to come loose? Or should i get longer bolts and nylock nuts. Would also like to see some pics of throttle servo setups.

I just started on the tail feathers and I don’t see there being an issue with the way the flying wires attach. Since the threads on the bolt go all the way through both sides of the nylon hardware I’m comfortable with the connection. I suppose if you wanted to be overly cautious you could run a quarter inch larger bolt and put a Nylok not on the bottom but I truly don’t see a need for that.

I just wrapped up the tail section with the exception of installing the rudder. A little advice for the first time flying wire guys, I highly suggest running a laser across your horizontal stabilizer and vertical stabilizer to make sure the wires haven’t pulled either out of place.

Originally Posted by scooby61

Has anyone done their flying wires onthe tail or throttle servo setups yet. I have concerns about the wire hardware. The bolts for the hardware on the vert stabolzer just thread into the hardware on the other side. Is it aconcern for these to come loose? Or should i get longer bolts and nylock nuts. Would also like to see some pics of throttle servo setups.

I dont like any of the hardware they supplied- the plastic is fairly soft and the parts are way oversized for the scale of the aircraft..


.. however I think it will work just fine as is.


I am planning to replace all mine with metal DuBro harware, but that's just my anal building style.....

Ok, not much building over holiday week, but we did have a lot of family fun and my 9 year old finally soloed!!!



He spends a lot of time now watching Jase videos and playing on the sim so I got him an upgrade for Christmas