Originally Posted by
mcartier713
how does everyone trim their particular plane for landing and why? like i've noticed in the plane i fly, some guys trim it all the way nose up, some guys trim for final speed, and some dont even mess with it....
Suppose it depends on the airplane. I fly final in trim (always fly in trim) and pull for the flare (MD-80). There are times when I add some nose up bias for the flare but never much.
In the B-737 too much nose up trim can make a go-around very exciting. The under wing engines create a very large pitch up when adding full power for a go-around. The pilot has to really push hard to stop the jet from pitching too far nose up.
Every plane is different but I doubt a pilot would want to use a lot of up trim for the flare on most any aircraft.