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Glacier pilot
You seem familiar with this autopilot system. Would you know (hypothetically) if the autopilot was engaged, is there an 'alert' system to indicate to the pilot that a trim (pitch) situation to a maxium position has occured. (full aft or full forward trim) (due to a fuel burn, CG, airspeed/altitude change, etc) Obviously, he pilot should 'know' or be paying attention, but how is the trim positon 'scanned' (with autopilot engaged) in normal operations? Thanks.
there are small windows showing trim actuator position with an analog needle. Should one of them hardover, the respective AP should kick off and an indication of 1(2) AP appears in the narrow window(in the pic)....the one with hashed digits. In the pic, flight director (hdg, nav, alt, etc...)is not engaged and he is flying the aircraft manually. Also, his heading bug and track bar is not being used/ set according to aircraft flighpath.
Again, this is not the accident flight but someone earlier said it was a checkride flight.