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Old 9th May 2012, 11:16
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But what causes you to need to trim? When you are trimmed straight and level at say a lowish power setting and you advance the power levers fully forward what happens that causes the aircraft to need trimming to maintain the altitude? What is the initial thing that has to happen? Before as many claim you pitch for speed? (which is not the true picture!)
We are trying to dissect something into black or white chunks rather than the whole hence why I repeat both are wrong there can technically only be one right?
Trimming while vitally important is a bit of a Red Herring in this discussion some aircraft dont even have a trim wheel.

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