Originally Posted by
Luc Lion
Here it is:
At 05:40:35, the First-Officer called out “stab trim cut-out” two times. Captain agreed and FirstOfficer confirmed stab trim cut-out.
At 05:40:41, approximately five seconds after the end of the ANU stabilizer motion, a third instance of AND automatic trim command occurred without any corresponding motion of the stabilizer, which is consistent with the stabilizer trim cutout switches were in the ‘’cutout’’ position.
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At 05:41:46, the Captain asked the First-Officer if the trim is functional. The First-Officer has replied that the trim was not working and asked if he could try it manually. The Captain told him to try.
At 05:41:54, the First-Officer replied that it is not working.
So it is a bit more than 1 minute after the cutout switches had been actioned.
Luc
You are assuming that "
The First-Officer has replied that the trim was not working" means that he attempted unsuccessfully to use the electric trim switches.
It could equally have been him just confirming that (as you rightly say) just over a minute previously both pilots had agreed to disable the stab trim (05:40:35), given that it was followed
immediately by asking "
if he could try it manually". In other words, the electric trim switches obviously weren't going to work, and there wouldn't have been any point in trying them.