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Old 7th Jan 2015, 17:45
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If the screw jack is wound all the way to the slow end of its travel, it reminds me of an accident to a light aircraft with a female pilot.
She had engaged the auto-pilot in altitude hold just before take-off. The AP had wound the trim fully UP before she accelerated for take-off, and the AAIB concluded that she would have been incapable of pushing on the stick with sufficient force to avert the disaster that occurred.
They concluded that the force required would have been over 50 pounds, meaning that she would not have been able to take one hand off the column to re-trim the aircraft, and so avoid the stall.
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