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Old 29th May 2011, 23:38
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takata
 
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Hi Machinbird,
Originally Posted by Machinbird
Posters from Europe seem to believe that you will never touch the manual trim wheel while airborne... A poster from Hong Kong says, yes you don't use it often
Well, I think that's a bit jumping too early at those trim wheels.
I do believe that posters from Europe and Hong Kong would agree that:
1. You need first to aknowledge the stall situation;
2. You need next to apply full nose down before starting to think about moving the wheels, reduce thrust, or rolling to nose down pitch.

Airbus seems pretty confident about its elevators authority, even with a jammed THS between +8 and +14 degrees, as it is said to be an issue mainly above 180 kts.
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