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Old 12th Mar 2019, 23:50
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Airbubba
 
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Originally Posted by Luc Lion
Airbubba, the "control column actuated trim cutout switches" are switches located in the control column that stop an electric trim movement when the control column requests an elevator deflection contradicting the trim movement. This is the immediate response to a stuck electric trim button before using the STAB TRIM MAIN ELECT cutout switch on the control stand.
Thanks, seems like there was something like that on the 727.

Originally Posted by FCeng84
There seems to be some confusion with regard to 737 switches associated with pitch trim. That is very understandable as there are quite a few and it is easy to get them mixed up. Let me take a run at an overview:

I hope this helps.
It does, thanks!
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