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Old 10th Apr 2016, 05:24
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chuks
 
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I am not misreading anything, just asking logical follow-on questions.

For one thing, the pitch trim switches are placed right there on the yoke, when it's logical that someone who has just trimmed down-down-down is now going to trim up-up-up. That's not quite the right way to fly the aircraft, no, but that's what someone might do who's over-using the trim; he's now going to use the same thing to get himself out of the mess that he had previously used to get himself into that mess.

It's completely unrealistic for OKC to tell us of a scenario where he is pulling with all his might against the trim without bothering to re-trim using switches that are right there on the yoke. Who would do that, especially given that they would have been using those same switches shortly before to re-trim the aircraft? It is not as if the PF is going to suddenly forget to use the same secondary flight control, pitch trim, that he already had been using, is it? This is not, at first glance, a realistic scenario, so that we need to be told more about how it's supposed to have come about.

Yes, you could set up your aircraft to crash by trimming full nose-down on a go-around at low altitude while also going to idle thrust, but then the first question would seem to be, why not simply correct those settings?
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