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Old 15th Mar 2019, 19:30
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Chesty Morgan
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Originally Posted by joig
How many turns does it take to go from max down to say a neutral position? Given they they were never that high from the ground , How long would it take them to trim from max down to something that would save the flight? What am trying to say is OK we have a trim problem disable trim motor via cut out switches.. Turn the manual trim wheel . Would they have the time to do this if the are only approximately 1000ft above ground?
I think it's approximately 60 turns from full nose down to 3 units which is about neutral.

Doesn't take that long to manually trim from neutral to full nose down or vice versa.


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