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Old 17th February 2011 | 09:08
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Pace
 
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You can also get lovely steep turns by flying with one hand on the trim wheel but dont tell the instructor that either

Trim can freeze. I was waiting for a clearance to climb into CAS to FL 120.
I was down at around 4000 feet just in plus temperatures and in very heavy rain. I was cleared to climb in the Seneca and headed up trimming the aircraft into the climb.
All was fine untilthe level off where shock of horrors the trim had frozen solid in the climb attitude.
I had no choice with the forces but to explain the situation and head down in an ungainly fashion and some quite considerable out of trim forces to melt the lot off.
Having done that it was the climb all over again to FL120.
But that is something to consider as you could be sitting there with heavy forces wondering whats going on.

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