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Old 15th Apr 2016, 14:08
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keith williams
 
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You are of course correct. Some aircraft have systems which attempt to compensate for these effects, and some of these systems are more effective than others.

I must confess that having looked at the question and noted that this is the first post from this member, I concluded that he/she is preparing for the ppl or atpl exams. For many years the ATPL exam question bank has included this question, and the required answer was "pitch up moment".

In a previous life when teaching this subject I usually had some students shouting "my aircraft pitches nose up", while others shouted "but mine pitches nose down",and some even shouted "mine pitches up then down". This was very useful in that it demonstrated the range of possible effects.

So I suppose that my answer was based on the viewpoint of an ATPL student or groundschool instructor.

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