Fri Nov 21, 2003 12:26 am
#45916
OK.... I thought I could trim my aircraft for level flight reasonably well. But recently, most specifically when doing my IMC renewal, I have found that I have to return to the trim wheel an awful lot to correct things. I either drift into a gentle climb or a gentle descent. I make a very small correction and then all is ok for a short while and off we go again... up or down. In fact, I had a new a/p fitted this year and decided against the alt hold on the grounds that it would seriously degrade my trimming skills - such as they are!!
Is there a trick I am missing here??
I have also been given to understand that if you leave almost any aeroplane to its own devices that it will tend to roll over if you don't make the odd roll correction. I understood that the usual tendency is that if you just wait most aircraft will end up in a spiral dive. My aircraft can probably be described as a
harmless tin can I suppose!