Originally Posted by
rudderrudderrat
The first two reasons you quote would make every conventional aircraft impossibly difficult to fly.
Not at all - it's just that autotrim can help take the load off and give you hands on throttle and stick if necessary.
The real reason is as Tyropicard pointed out a long while back - How would you know when and in which direction to trim, if you are in Normal or Alternate Law?"
Same way as in a conventional aircraft, by looking at the trim wheel indicators.
Originally Posted by
CONF iture
Sorry, I almost forgot you actually don't have practical experience of piloting.
Airliners no, but I've done some single-engined prop flying in my youth.
Better understand now why guys on Boeing and every other brands must be more qualified ...
How does that work? Just because autotrim is present doesn't mean that pilots should not be trained how to trim manually - as I've said from the start, if airlines want to use the automatics so much that manual flying skills are eroded, then they must beef up their manual training programmes to compensate.