Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The issue is *RECOGNITION*... this does not present as a stereotypical trim runaway. Waiting some number of seconds to account for that is a reasonable approximation of that delayed recognition in the sim since the pilots in the sim tests knew exactly what was about to happen
Recognition was determined by the FAA to be 4 seconds. They arbitrarily changed it to 10.
10 seconds is a really long time to sit in that seat and do nothing.