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Old 9th Oct 2018, 20:02
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And then, after having wound the trim back to centre, observing the position of the trim tab during the pre-flight walk around would have shown something was amiss.
By that logic he should have run up the engines and operated all of the engine and propellor controls through their full range, then shut down and inspected the engines and propellers.

Then removed all the inspection panels necessary to confirm that no control cable was fraying.

Then drained and replenished fuel to confirm that calculated and indicated equaled uploaded.

Then done an aircraft re-weigh to confirm that the loading and CofG data for the aircraft remained accurate.

Then...

If we didn’t and couldn’t make reasonable assumptions about the maintenance and operational history of the systems of the aircraft we fly, we’d never get off the ground.
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