"Rick" wrote:

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:30:11 -0600, "Lady Pilot"
wrote:

Have you flown a Metro?

Yes, a Metro III for several thousand hours as a regional airline
captain and a Metro II for a few hundred flying freight and mail.

I apologize, I re-read your last post and I got a wrong impression on how
you worded the way you "stay focused on your trim".

As I said in my last post to Oz, there are many aircraft, just not the Metro
that has had this problem with the trim installed in reverse.

Please accept my apologies,

LP

Document?

Google it or ask the next Metro driver you run into.

You obviously are not a pilot of an aircraft.

Silly woman.

All aircraft I have ever
flown, you trim up to take off the pressure of the yoke (control column).

I guess someone else sets the trim for you then. They probably set it
nose low so you won't over-rotate and drag the tail or pitch up and
stall or as soon as you lift off. That is a good way to teach students
the use of trim without risking much besides wheelbarrowing down the
runway.

You trim for speed. If the trim is set too nose high before takeoff,
as the aircraft accelerates it will tend to increase pitch and stick
forces pushing the nose down. The opposite will occur if the trim is
set too nose low, as in the case Oz described.

Generally the
trim in motion indicator is dinging throughout the initial climb ...

What????

The Metro has a sonalert in the overhead that beeps whenever the trim
motor is running. Trim on a Metro is very powerful due to the large CG
range and a runaway trim can very guickly create very high stick
forces so the feds required a trim in motion signal to alert the crew
that the trim motor is running. Since it is used so much during
takeoff and landing it sometimes frightens passengers, especially on
takeoff when they suddenly hear what they believe to be an alarm going
off in the cockpit.

Please elaborate!

What more do you need?



Rick