2 comments:
1- I have not seen them all, but I've never seen a single incident where pitch authority, including elevator and pitch trim, was not enough to keep pitch control. I did see a few cases where the plane went too slow, the trim went too nose-up, and then full thrust produced a pitch-up moment that cannot be counteracted with full nose-down elevator, but it could have been easily controlled by applying a bit of nose-down trim (I mean, reducing the nose-up trim). Only that this idea didn't crossed the pilots' minds.
2- Because of the same reasons that I commented in previous posts, I doubt that somatogravic illusion played a big role here.
1- I have not seen them all, but I've never seen a single incident where pitch authority, including elevator and pitch trim, was not enough to keep pitch control. I did see a few cases where the plane went too slow, the trim went too nose-up, and then full thrust produced a pitch-up moment that cannot be counteracted with full nose-down elevator, but it could have been easily controlled by applying a bit of nose-down trim (I mean, reducing the nose-up trim). Only that this idea didn't crossed the pilots' minds.
2- Because of the same reasons that I commented in previous posts, I doubt that somatogravic illusion played a big role here.
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