> the trim run-away - happens all the time in airliners you've flown in.
It doesn't. A trim run-away is a very very serious incident for any pilot.
There are procedures to deal with it, and we check trim override in pre-flight checks, but it's absolutely not an everyday thing.
> 737's are even safer here than many airliners, because after you disable the electric trim motors, you have manual wheels in the cockpit that you can rotate to set the trim back to what it should be. Some other airliners in common use don't have these manual trim controls - you have to disable a trim run-away in time, or it's game over.
This is not true at all either. There are no planes with a single electric trim that you cannot override. The FAA and EASA would refuse to certify those.
I've never flown an E190, but if you Google the basic systems description you'll find that it has two sets of trim controls and on top of that separate override controls.
Both circuits are electric, but they are separate systems on separate power busses to ensure you always have control.
It doesn't. A trim run-away is a very very serious incident for any pilot.
There are procedures to deal with it, and we check trim override in pre-flight checks, but it's absolutely not an everyday thing.
> 737's are even safer here than many airliners, because after you disable the electric trim motors, you have manual wheels in the cockpit that you can rotate to set the trim back to what it should be. Some other airliners in common use don't have these manual trim controls - you have to disable a trim run-away in time, or it's game over.
This is not true at all either. There are no planes with a single electric trim that you cannot override. The FAA and EASA would refuse to certify those.