Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
Vessbot's description = My Head Hurts!
I shouldn't complain though, I don't even have a trim wheel...
Take off today. 76 tons. So not low gross weight. I let the STS do it’s job (it was not supposed to do anything due to high gross weight?). It was trimming way longer than the claimed 10 seconds band it should trim after take off. I had to really push forward on the controls after it had finished trimming aft. So much that if I had let go, the nose would have pitched up really fast.
I had to trim 5-6 turns forward before the aircraft was stable. That’s a lot!
So, we have a system that brings the aircraft out of trim, and trims when it is not supposed to trim.
Not super easy. Dangerous. I don’t think about this when I fly manually since the first thing I do is to trim forward in order to cancel out the STS.
This system is plain stupid. Try it, and see for yourself.