On Feb 5, 5:31*pm, Uncle Fuzzy wrote:
On Feb 5, 12:39*pm, Brad wrote:





On Feb 5, 11:34*am, Pat Russell wrote:

Yep.

If you have a trim tab, remember: *"elevator disconnected - use trim
normally. *elevator frozen - use trim backwards."
I haven't thought of a good mnemonic for this, however.

If you don't have a trim tab, never mind.

-Pat

The pilot selected full nose down trim, in response to his limited pitch control.

This is off-topic, but... he did the exact opposite of what should
have been done, didn't he?

Bart

trim TAB, not to be confused with spring or bungee trim?

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Absolutely. *Spring or Bungee will do NOTHING if the stick is stuck.
Trim tab will act as a tiny elevator working OPPOSITE from the trim
function if the stick is stuck. The Twin Astir runs out of elevator in
a steep turn with max pilots weight. *You can get significantly more
up elevator by pushing the trim FORWARD.

Getting back on topic. I have a vertex and experienced the same
frustrations. My wife gave me the remote mic/speaker and it freed up
my hands tremendously.

Lane