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Hatchet. Job.

An article written by a non-pilot about an article by a GA pilot with no experience as an ATP.

The elephant in the room is not the type-rating issue so much as the speculative cause of the crashes: if your aircraft is out-of-trim and control pressure cannot restore it, you have a runaway trim condition and you need to disable the electric trim system immediately.

If, in these cases, it turns out that the AOA sensor was faulty, that is only one of many possible causes for a runaway trim condition.

The core problem is not the specific cause, but the failure of pilots to respond appropriately to a common and easily-remedied situation.



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