Originally Posted by
Texasbound
Wow, so after all that training you don't realize that using the manual wheel is at the end of the checklist? If you start the memory items withing 10 seconds you will not be wildly out of trim when doing the last part. It's called flying.
Control column............................................ .....Hold firmly
Autopilot (if engaged).......................................... .Disengage
Autothrottle (if engaged)........................................Di sengage
Control column and thrust levers..........................Control airplane
pitch attitude and airspeed
Main Electric
Stabilizer trim.............................................R educe control
column forces
If the runaway stops after the autopilot is disengaged:
Do not re-engage the autopilot or autothrottle.
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If the runaway continues after the autopilot is disengaged:
STAB TRIM CUTOUT
switches (both)............................................ ....CUTOUT
If the runaway continues:
Stabilizer
trim wheel........................................Grasp and hold
Have you done it? The trim doesn't stop when you start the checklist and 10 seconds of running trim is going to cause significant stab forces to maintain straight and level. And by the way, prior to the accidents, the stab trim cutout occured after the first "if runaway continues." And there was no discussion of a technique on how to use the trim wheel or a discussion of unloading the flight controls as the ONLY method of manually trimming in a recovery from a runaway