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Old 8th Jul 2019, 23:06
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Smilin_Ed
 
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Why Do We Need Pilots Anyway?

Doesn't anyone else find it difficult to understand how a plane can be certified for flight when forces (torque) on the manual trim wheel can be so large that the trim wheel cannot override the forces imparted on the system by the air loading on the control surfaces? It looks like the designers expected the pilots to never trim the airplane but expected the pilots to defer all movement of control surfaces including trim to the autopilot.
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