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Old 28th Jan 2015, 14:00
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Is there not enough elevator/stab authority in the Airbus to unstall it assuming it was fully stalled by pushing the nose down even if fully trimmed nose up?
In my "normal" aeroplane, I suspect that if stalled with full nose-up trim, I could imagine that I may not be able to get out of it by simply pushing full forward; I suspect that there may not be enough elevator authority, hence the comment about using the Stab trim to get the nose down in the stall recovery procedure. Pushing and trimming, of course, is second-nature to me because that's the way you hand-fly my aeroplane. I would expect that in a full stall, trimming forward (via a convenient pair of buttons on the control column) would also be second-nature.
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