Originally Posted by
Caygill
Just out of curiosity, looking at the initial report for the last minutes:
1. they find them-self at least 4-5 degree out of trim, cut power to trims trims.
2. the aerodynamic forces and loading is so great that they're unable to operate the trim wheels.
3. they are a 2-3000 feet above ground.
How do you recover without unloading (diving) the aircraft?
I think the answer is that they didn’t find themselves badly out of trim. It happened over many minutes?? To unload you don’t dive- you release back pressure to zero and trim NU before you get into a dangerous nose down scenario