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Old 27th May 2011, 12:57
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Originally Posted by ask26
From my knowledge this is an auto-trim aircraft. Aside from movement of the trim wheel is there any other action that could have been done to manually reset the THS. Unlike a 737 for instance where there is a separate trim switch.
It's auto-trim until it's not - that function/law can drop out automatically (when HAL/George gives up) and it did at Perpignan.

737 has auto-trim too - again, it can drop out automatically, after putting the trim full up - see Schipol (and at least one other incident).
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