jcjeant posted :
In alternate law .. the trim is in "auto-trim" ?
takata answered :
Until you are using the manual wheel which is overriding it.
takata, have you ever flown an Airbus ? Have you ever trained for type rating on either 320, 330, 340 or 380 ? I will tell you a ghastly secret : using manual pitch trim is one of the very first things one has to
unlearn in order to be accepted as a candidate for type rating. After which, during all operational flight hours, and during every simulator training and check, it is
verboten to touch that wheel.
CPT : A330/340 experience -> 1700hrs (plus all hours on A320 not mentioned)
F/O 1 : A320/330/340 experience -> 6500hrs
F/O 2 : A320/330/340 experience -> 2900hrs
It would seem obvious that touching that verboten wheel would have perhaps been useful. But the pilots here had
never touched it, even in benign conditions, for a total of more than 10000 hours...
