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"while their A and B colleagues have to deal with such narrow margins that automation becomes the only means of achieving reliable results."

Whatchewtalkingbout!

Flown all three and you certainly don't need the autos for A or B.

L S M.

Whilst there may have been PE correction problems with the leveloff/acceleration, how come the simple expedient of "helping" the trim with a manual input also solved the problem?

I only flew the 146 and not the RJ, for 9 years and this technique never failed.

I can't recall if the 'frame had a THS, or was trim applied to the infamous tabs on the elevator, with all the slack accumulating over time making this phenomenon more likely?

Otherwise a great little over-engineered craft which was/maybe still is a pilots' aeroplane. :)

I don't know, I never used that technique for levelling off.

I distinctly remember using a big handful of ND trim to stop the porposing at high(!) speed and it seemed to cure that, for a while at least.

I can't remember why it worked or even if I knew why it worked.

The way it landed was good for the ego