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Old 11th Mar 2019, 09:30
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Originally Posted by silverstrata
There is this volumous clanking noise going on, as the huge great Titanic trim wheel (taken from the Ju-52) winds its way around. And the controls will need a great deal of pulling for normal flight (something like 50 to 60 kg of force), which is pretty much uncontrollable.
Yes, correct. But from what I understand is not what is happening in the case of the MCAS.
You do not get a continuous running of the trim wheel like in a trim runaway, so probably not so easy to understand, at least not as easy as some posters imply.
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