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Old 6th Jun 2011, 20:37
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DozyWannabe
 
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There's a useful document here:

A330 Flight Controls

But as I understand it, it boils down to "if the pilot is still holding the stick back at the limits of elevator authority, trim nose-up to assist until the pilot stops issuing the command". This should hardly ever be necessary, as it is intended to escape from extreme attitudes only, but it is there.

@Lonewolf_50

I *know*, and I know that many pilots agree that the loss of tactile feedback was a mistake. I do not "dismiss" anything and I do not reduce pilots to "operators". I think we're poking at cross tortoises here. Airbus aircraft do retain a degree of artificial feel to allow the pilot to know what the *aircraft* is doing, but what CONF and the others are banging on about is the fact that on the Airbus you can't directly feel what the other *pilot* is doing. That's the issue, and that's what I'm talking about when it comes to back-drive.
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