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Old 18th Dec 2019, 18:56
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Originally Posted by Takwis
"If nose up trim is required, RAISE THE NOSE WELL ABOVE THE HORIZON with elevator control. Then slowly relax the control column pressure and manually trim nose up. Allow the nose to drop TO THE HORIZON while trimming. Repeat...."

Done per the instructions, there should not be a loss of altitude.
The question is, will the nose consistently drop to horizon only, and not below ? Every such maneuver I taught/made/saw being made resulted in a loss of altitude.
Especially since when countering MCAS, the crew will have a hard time "raising the nose well above the horizon"...
But I admint never having done that in an airliner.
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