Question:Enough training for wrong C of G?
 

I know that pilots do a lot of training when it comes to engine fires, loss of hydraulics, decompressions, flame outs etc. All of these things happen when they are airborn most of the time .

But do they get enough training on what happens when they pull back on the stick on take-off and nothing happens, after V1, as just happened to Emirates in JNB last week?

What should the first reaction be?

Should runways compensate for such happennings?

Not the answer you want but never the less....

I remember chatting with a bloke in the Ozarks who did the number crunching on the balance/loading side of things. He said the penalty when he was working there, for getting the balance wrong (to the extent that it was out of the envelope) was 13 years locked up.

That seals my confidence =).

Raise eyebrows, begin mild panic :sad:

Two considerations, here - which are we considering of ..

(a) calculated CG within the envelope but at the wrong end (or just a miscalculation/mis-setting of the stab trim) ?

(b) CG blatantly outside the envelope ?

So far as training goes many, if not all, simulator programs and instructors will run a number of takeoff exercises to give transitioning pilots some idea of the stick forces and gradients involved in these situations.