Ethiopian airliner down in Africa

[FrequentSLF]

Originally Posted by OldnGrounded

Originally Posted by FrequentSLF I have not seen any comment regarding the force required to crank manually the trim wheels, those are mechanically connected to the stabilizer therefore to change stabilizer position rotating manually the wheels will require to overcame the load on the stabilizer. It is stupid to think that the forces on stabilizer at those speeds made hard if not impossible to manually change stabilizer position?

I'm pretty sure we have some confusion here based upon misunderstanding of a post by a non-native writer of English.

FrequentSLF: There have been a number of posts here, and coverage in the news media, addressing the issue of difficulty operating the manual trim wheels under high loads. It's pretty much agreed that it would be very hard. Your post seems to say that you believe that isn't true, but I don't think that's what you meant. Can you help us?

thanks, yes i meant that would be pretty hard to operate the manual,trim under high loads, sorry for the confusion i might have created