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Old 1st November 2011 | 01:04
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From: Seat 1A
Originally Posted by Dozy
Here there is no tactile feedback, so "trimming to the pressure" is impossible, and performing the same thing visually using the ADI as reference would be physically exhausting on a day-in, day-out basis. This was part of the reason autotrim was developed because the flight control design was a completely new paradigm.
A new paradigm? Perhaps that is the real issue. As for pilots trimming into a stalled situation, of course that is ridiculous. If you don't discount that, then you'd have to say there is no place in the cockpit for pilots becuase they are too incompetent.
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