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We went over pitch trim runaway in A320 sims last night. I was kind of surprised at how low key the procedure was, which was essentially "counter it with the control stick"... heavy paraphrase. The only other turbine aircraft I have experience with is the PC-12, where it was considered more of a time critical emergency, and you'd need to hit a trim interrupt switch fairly quickly before the aircraft became uncontrollable.
I feel like I'm missing something here. Does it have to do with there not being any trim tabs on the THS, so less potential of a separate flight control surface (the tab) affecting the main one (the stab)? Does it not push the A320 into as drastic of a control state as the PC-12? Something else?
I'm hitting the books to see what I can learn, but wanted to see if anybody here had something to add.
I feel like I'm missing something here. Does it have to do with there not being any trim tabs on the THS, so less potential of a separate flight control surface (the tab) affecting the main one (the stab)? Does it not push the A320 into as drastic of a control state as the PC-12? Something else?
I'm hitting the books to see what I can learn, but wanted to see if anybody here had something to add.