Originally Posted by
yanrair
This notion of needing to be an Oxford scholar of English semantic grammar is absurd. Continuously means “it keeps doing it. “ Whether it stops for a second and then does it again - it’s still continuous.
“ my wife nags me continuously “. She presumably stops to draw breath? But it’s still continuous. Indeed continuous enough to kill you if you don’t stop it. It goes beyond the language in NNC though. You have to have systems knowledge to know that a STAB trimming forward ND over and over is continuous enough to kill you. It’s extremely basic knowledge. And you can’t let it get away from you. So you counter trim nose up continuously until back to neutral trim and switches off. That’s it. Now that the poor guys flying these two didn’t know this maybe, is a training issue.vlearly the one that got away did know. From the 707
to the 737-800 NG we were all taught that stab trim is a killer.
So, you look down at the trim wheel and it is not turning. Is it continuously trimming ND, with some pauses, or not? If you watch it, continuously, for six seconds (ignoring everything else making noises to try and attract your attention) you may get an answer. You can lose a lot of height in six seconds, at those speeds.