Prospector.
Saying that they all ended up against the rear bulkhead is silly. Have you read the review? Have you been on a parachute load in the back of a Walter Fletcher? Have you looked into the cabin of a Walter Fletcher that has eight people or four tandem pairs on board? The review discusses the possibility of load shift.
The Walter Fletcher must have different fight characteristics than the 400 Fletcher as far as take off with full aft trim goes. I am not disputing your experience with aft trim on ag work. Superair tested this and found it was easily controllable in the Walter? Why don't you ring the test pilot and ask him about it as one Fletcher pilot to another?
Why was the trim at the accident scene in the normal take off position? If the pilot had been madly winding it forward you would think it would be hard against the stop?
The chief commissioner says that the review really changed nothing, when in fact they have reversed the main finding of weight and balance being the most likely cause, to weight and balance being 99% certain NOT to be the most likely cause.
They rightly say now, they have no idea what the cause of the steep (not anywhere near vertical) climb was that led to the accident.
I see the Wanganui Helicopter accident has also come up again, where taic did a similar job on the investigation.