Did a flight where I had the trim full forward and the yoke almost into the panel .... yep, guilty!
Yeah, it just keeps happenin’. Not much new for us pilots. Just so we know what to do about it (and you did). Good for you.
Yeah, lots of cycles on the Boeing fleet, but they can keep getting rebuilt (if you have the gold). As for the Airbus, not so much. There are still lots of old airplanes around, but not many old Airbuses (sp?). What’s the plural of Airbus? Airbi?
I had a brief flirtation with Airbi in my career (they do have nice cockpit seats). Word has it when they get to a particular number of cycles and hours they’re scrapped. I don’t know whether it is economically feasible to mess with all that composite. My guess is that when it reaches a particular life limit, it’s dead. I’m not terribly sure there is even much scrap value in the airframe on those things. At least with the old Boeings, you can make beer cans out of ‘em of sumpin’.