Originally Posted by
Tomaski
but somewhere along the way this knowledge fell out of general circulation and with it an appreciation for the seriousness of runaway trim and the need for flight crews to be regularly exposed to this malfunction and the proper steps to counter it.
Agreed, and I suspect that runaway trim will feature more in future training and sim scenarios. However, now that the Pandora’s box of trim wheel operation has been opened, it will have to be addressed. As has been mentioned a number of times on this thread the solution must be one which allows
all pilots to effectively use manual trim, not simply the
average pilot.
And as you pointed out, this affects all iterations of the NG model as well as the MAX.