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Old 15th Mar 2019, 19:53
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Originally Posted by Chesty Morgan
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.
Have you tried this in the air? A friend of mine had a trim failure in the air. He found manual trim so hard he though he had a jammed stabilizer and ended up with a FL15 landing at nearest suitable airport.

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