EatSleepFly
Well-Known Member
Just curious as to what you all think...
The other day, while trying to pull a fast one on my student (who had given me the controls for a sec. while he was in the process of putting on his hood for instrument work), I secretly ran the trim back a long ways, and kept the yoke muscled forward to maintain our climb-out speed. The idea was to see his reaction to a trim system malfunction and possible resultant unusual attitude after I gave him back the controls (he did fine, and then swore at me, lol
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Anyways, it didn't occur to me until I was laying in bed that night, but...
Could it possibly do damage to the trim tab, or some other part of the trim system, by holding the aircraft so grossly out of trim for a minute or so? I've never heard anything about it before, but with all the force it took to keep the nose down, it would seem like something could get damaged. Any thoughts?
(This was a Cessna 172 by the way.)
The other day, while trying to pull a fast one on my student (who had given me the controls for a sec. while he was in the process of putting on his hood for instrument work), I secretly ran the trim back a long ways, and kept the yoke muscled forward to maintain our climb-out speed. The idea was to see his reaction to a trim system malfunction and possible resultant unusual attitude after I gave him back the controls (he did fine, and then swore at me, lol

Anyways, it didn't occur to me until I was laying in bed that night, but...
Could it possibly do damage to the trim tab, or some other part of the trim system, by holding the aircraft so grossly out of trim for a minute or so? I've never heard anything about it before, but with all the force it took to keep the nose down, it would seem like something could get damaged. Any thoughts?
(This was a Cessna 172 by the way.)