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I have about 200+ hours in single engine and some instrument time though I never got that ticket. VFR for ever. Ok, let me ask you pro's: Even if the elevator trim is jammed nose down (FOR WHATEVER REASON!) in a commercial jet and cannot be neutralized ( FOR WHATEVER REASON) can human strength overcome that and pull the nose up anyway? Can someone please answer that question?

I am running ELITE Fl9ight Sim IFR Trainer on a PC with XP. I am using the CH Flight Sim Yoke and CH Pro Pedals. I am unable to get the pedals to work with the sim. I have tried several different procedures to no avail. Can anyone help? I have emailed CH with no results. Thanks.

China's 800m peasants to escape yoke of farm tax By Richard Spencer (Filed: 21/12/2005) A 2,000-year-old grievance will be lifted next year when China scraps taxes for hundreds of millions of peasants, the government's traditional source of revenue. Reforms introduced as proof of China's commitment to those left behind by the economic boom are so far ahead of schedule that farm taxes, which date back to before the first emperor, will be abolished early, the finance minister, Jin Renqing, said. Local governments would be compensated for the loss of income from central funds. Taxes have been one of the peasantry's...

It may be a work of art. It may have some more useful purpose. Or maybe it's some combination of the two. But Dwayne Romine would like to know for sure. He and his 12-year-old son, Greg, were looking for deer tracks on some family property near Indianola recently when the older Romine spotted something a little unusual in the ground. "I said 'look at that, a piece of rusted metal'," he recalled. "Greg said, 'Naw, that's just an old tree branch,' but I said 'No it's not.' "Sure enough, when we pulled it up, it was metal." That alone...