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Old 17th Nov 2011, 20:27
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Dani
 
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Ninety-nine point nine nine nine percent of your flight time or more has been in Normal Law. Just because your regular autotrim has been so sweet doesn't mean she does not have an ugly sister.
Maybe, I still don't see where autotrim was to blame in AF447's case. It did autotrim what the PF ordered. Autotrim has no artificial intelligence to know what's in a pilot's mind. It stupidly does what it has been told: When you pull for a long time it trims this position to zero force. That's the definition of trim. What's wrong about this function on AF447? If only he would have pushed the stick as long as he pulled it, autotrim would have ordered THS back, this I'm pretty sure.
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