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Old 29th Nov 2018, 08:02
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Originally Posted by PickyPerkins
Can someone please explain to me how to following can be possible:

The actual trim position increases without any manual or automatic trim increase (in the upward direction) with the CUT OUT in operation. The only automatic and manual inputs are down, but the trim position moves up. Or am I reading everything backwards?


Manual trimming.

Edit: Yes, manual trimming with the trim wheel only shows up as trim position, not as trim input. So at the end of the previous flight, they were spinning the big wheel around by hand.

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