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Old April 26th 08, 06:35 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
WingFlaps
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Default limit of trim = limit of travel?

On Apr 27, 12:09*am, Mxsmanic wrote:

Interesting. *I was flying my simulated Cessna 182


Specifically, I've been trying to practice slow flight, but it seems to be
really hard to get the aircraft anywhere near its minimum speed. *During the
course of this practice I noticed that even trimming for full nose up didn't
seem to actually get the aircraft down towards the bottom of the green band,
so I was wondering if it were really possible to trim it that far. *


Did you close the throttle? If you did and it won't trim to 65 knots
it's a crap simulation.

Cheers