Hi Highflyer,
Thanks again for the explanation. I understand now using the stick to hold the nose where you want it and then trimming until there's no pressure. I had thought you meant just using the trimmer to move the nose. I had also assumed it would be extremely rare for baggage to mess up the c of g. I guess there's no longer a F/E out there on the tarmac checking on the loaders. As for the 2 - 4 second spool up time, its a lot quicker than what seemed to take forever on the low-bypass JT3Ds.
Thanks
Interesting when the nose is light that you use the trim and not just forward pressure on the stick. As to this nose heavy incident, even if the PF increased power, he still needed more runway. And do today's engines need time to spool up ?
If the cvr had more than 30 minutes it would make interesting listening when they hit vr and the nose wouldn't come up. Must be nice to have a lot of runway.
Back in the last century some wintertime eastbound transatlantic British Airways 747s would take on food carts through a rear door at CYQB. Some of us in-transit at the back of steerage would feel the severe temperature drop as soon as they popped the hatch. I seem to recall stews putting on gloves and coats before bringing the carts on board.
