Originally Posted by
hans brinker
GS mini is not for gusts.
Airbus Industrie:
The GS mini guidance has 3 major benefits:
1. It allows an efficient management of the thrust in gusts or longitudinal shears. Thrust varies in the right sense but in a smaller range(+/- 15% N1) in gusty situations which explains why it is recommended in such situations.........
(my bold this time).
I am not really having a go; just couldn't resist
Originally Posted by
hans brinker
What baffles me is the decision to not have any aileron trim, rudder trim in manual flight only, and pitch trim setting required to do manual before take off, but not used in flight (emergencies excluded)....
I have never really understood the desire to retain manual trimming. If it can be designed-out, why would you still want to trim manually?
It is like if motorists said they wanted to keep manual chokes, rather than have the car engine management control unit do it automatically. Or preferring the early gas turbine engines without ECUs or FADECS, which needed a flight engineer to look after them.
I flew many manually trimmed aircraft before Airbus FBW, (and flew them well enough, though I say so myself), but the Airbus auto-trim was a revelation. It just stays in the attitude you put it, (within certain limitations and caveats). Brilliant.
I cannot remember where I got my copy of The A320 Instructor Support manual. Airbus Industrie, ref: UGH01041, dated 2001.
