Clandestino
Quote:
Originally Posted by TTex600
"An airframe that does not trim for speed, but for flight path."
Clandestino, lecturing an A320 Captain:
"It is important to tell the difference between the airframe and flight control systems but anyway what's wrong with maintaining the flight path? Isn't it what the pilot is normally supposed to do, it's just easier with autotrim?"
The pilot is never supposed to trim to maintain the flight path, except in Direct Law, and that is the point. Neither does he feel the lessening of his Pitch effort. Trim is supplied not to make things easier, it isn't hard in the first place....
Trim is supplied automatically, to ease the stresses on the control surfaces, and to save fuel, read money. Less drag. Just like fuel in the tail.
Last edited by Lyman; 3rd August 2012 at 23:21.