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To: central_va
Your original question was can human strength overcome vertical trim failure, and the answer is probably not.

The pilot cannot get the nose up enough. Nose up determines wing angle of attack and affects lift when above stall speed.

Possible mitigation would include setting flaps, effectively reshaping the wing, but flight speed must be quite low to accomplish flaps successfully.

Regaining manual control of the vertical trim mechanism by disconnecting computer control is a significantly different question and far from aeronautics.

46 posted on 03/20/2019 7:04:04 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: Navy Patriot
The pilot cannot get the nose up enough. Nose up determines wing angle of attack and affects lift when above stall speed.

Remember I am a pilot too so I get that. I have never flown a fly-by-wire aircraft and never will. But am I to understand when the pilot pulls the little joy stick thingy back( Make the houses get smaller) the computer can override that? Really? How f---ed up is that? Another question is this: The hydraulics of the horizontal stabilizer can over come full nose down trim, they have the power to be able to do that? Right?

47 posted on 03/20/2019 7:11:06 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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