Capetanios Oz wrote:
OK LP, I found it
http://www.billzilla.org/flying3.html

Okay, before I have too much to drink tonight, I will try to wane techinal
on this incident.

Your friend Bill, went along with Dave on this test flight of the Metro.

Dave took off and didn't remember the cardinal rule of taking off in an
aircraft. Let me explain this in simple terms. When you take off in an
aircraft, before you ever take off from the runway, you trim the nose up.
In my airplanes, this meant rolling back the trim a couple of times. In the
story, the pilot repeatedly did this until the aircraft was out of control.

Let me just shorten this whole scenario down to this:

If this same thing would have happened to me (if I were the pilot), my
flight instructor who is a true "test pilot" would have questioned me why I
kept fighting the trim. The first instructions you get as a pilot is to
make *small* corrections, if they don't work, you know something is
definitely wrong. The pilot should have know better, if he was truly
*qualified* as a test pilot. Your friend Bill probably saved his life.
Although I admit that the Metro is a very fast aircraft, a real *test* pilot
would have known how to react to this situation.

LP (Maybe someday I will tell you of some of my aviation disasters)

Seems it's normal to trim a Metro nose up after takeoff.
http://www.billzilla.org/aviation.htm

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:49:25 +1100, Capetanios Oz wrote:

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:30:35 -0600, "Lady Pilot"
wrote:

That's bull****, Ozzy. Preflight for a small aircraft is at neutral,
then
you trim accordingly at take-off. If it goes the opposite way, any
pilot
who flies "by the seat of his pants" would know not to keep trimming the
damn aircraft all the way to the ground. Was the your son, flight
student?

Would you trim the sails for the opposite direction and not figure out
what
is wrong? Pretty much the same thing to me...

LP





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