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Old 26th Sep 2018, 01:54
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I reckon I can go from neutral, hard to the stop on one side, hard to the stop on the other, then back to neutral in under 5.
If the pilot had moved the rudder trim to the full left position during the pre-flight check and was distracted and forgot to reset it to the centre position, as soon as the pilot detected an out of trim situation on the take-off run, I would have thought that a "oops, the rudder trim" thought would have occured.

As for the time to reset the trim to the central position, that is unimportant. What is inportant It is the time that it would take to decrease the load on his leg until the load was manageable. Maybe even half a turn would have been sufficent.

Back last century, we had a chief engineer who, after a 100hrly, would set all three trim to "one corner." I challenged him about it and his reply was "just checking to see if you pilots do your checks correctly" The mind boggles sometimes with some men's stupidity.
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