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Old 27th Jan 2012, 13:34
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Originally Posted by Golf-Sierra
If there are any doubts if the pilots would be aware that the aircraft is automatically setting the trim nose up - please have a look at this video. Those wheels are painted alternating black and white for a reason.
That camera angle put the trim wheel in evidence but this is not something a pilot easily catches when attention is on the flight instruments and/or outside.

To think that the pilots on AF447 should have seen that wheel moving under the conditions is not realistic.
More than anything that wheel should not have turned at all under STALL WARNING.
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