Who cares?
Hosenose, I only have a few hours. I'm not exactly sure, but I think five or six. But it's enough to see firsthand how real trim works and how it differs from how it works in simulators. Most simulator users, unfortunately, tend to confuse the way simulators work with reality and preach accordingly. This is a major problem because simulators are often wrong (sometimes unavoidably, as in the case of trim). A good example is the discussion we just had where some people were suggesting that, in a real airplane, trimming affected the elevator's physical limit.
Interstingly, the German fighters in World War Two worked completely differently than American ones and modern aircraft. In German aircraft, trimming actually moved the stabilizer or something like that. So in that case, trimming actually did move the elevator's physical limit. But that's an exception.
