Originally Posted by mm43
Auto trim is always available except when indicated to the contrary as detailed above.
It should be the logical way, but Airbus thought otherwise as demonstrated in Perpignan.
I doubt if any of the pilots on this thread would want the aircraft designers to put the "intelligent" part into the automation so that the aircraft "knows" best.
I agree - Actually we would need less of that "intelligence" especially when some data are conflicting. After a discrepancy between AoA data + discrepancy between IAS we do not want automation to stay on the way - Autotrim is NOT welcome.
If I had to keep only one single item, I would say that autotrim has been the killer.