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Old 4th Aug 2012, 10:30
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achimha
 
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Interesting read. So this accident made Bendix introduce the audio warning TRIM IN MOTION. I rented a 2005 C172 some weeks ago and I was annoyed by how long you have to push the buttons for the AP to take your command and the TRIM IN MOTION annunciation over the audio panel. Now I know why and it's actually quite a good solution.

Trim runaway errors are evil. My avionics guy told me about a situation they had in a Fairchild Metroliner with trim runaway. This aircraft does not have a manual trim wheel and two pilots together were not strong in enough to pull back the elevator. Almost got killed.

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