Originally Posted by
FCeng84
I sure hope neither I nor anyone I care deeply about ever rides in the back of an airplane being piloted by crew who don’t recall the stabilizer cutout seitches, where they are, or when to use them
I do agree with you, however, in reality they can be used as rarely as once every 9 or 12 years or just during the type rating in the simulator. All ATA chapters rotate through a three years simulator cycle in EASAland (at least for many companies). However, the trim system is part of flight controls which has a lot more failure cases, so all the major failures have to be trained, and a trim runaway is not deemed a major failure necessarily, depending on preference of the companies training department and their approval from their local NAA. I bet next simulator cycle there will be a lot of trim runaway training in many companies, and then it will quiet down again.