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26th Aug 2013, 20:54

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Jwscud

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F30 pitch is +2.5 ish, F40 +0.

Feels like the barn doors are coming out when taking F40 and is a large nose down pitching moment requiring around 1s of trim or more. Also requires around 5% more N1 to hold the target speed.

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