What trim do you guys use for takeoff?

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Me personally i use 25% trim or 15%

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I don’t use trim

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I tend to just leave it on the spawn default, I find that works decent.

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On new aircraft its usually 5%-25%, while on aircraft like the 787 I go zero since with trim it lifts off before the V speed (atleast simbrief)

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I usually adjust it after retracting the gear.

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It’s up to personal preference, I tried many presets but I found the 0% trim one to make it the best for me.

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I use whatever setting is needed to not see the green trim indication.
It differs per aircraft and also depends on the weight.

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I don’t set my trim, I trim during my take off to better get the controlls of the aircraft, like in real life too.

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I use it often even on takeoff and while landing almost about 20-25 or sometimes 30. its very useful while flaring!!

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I don’t really use trim while taking off or landing.

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depends. if i’m flying over mlw, 20%

if im flying over mlw and very close to mtow, i do 30%

and if im super light
under 20%

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I’ve kinda figured out all my preferred trim settings for the aircraft a usually use. For the 737 I’ll do 10-15%. For the A320 I’ll do 5%. For the challenger 350 I’ll do 45%.

Though on landing I usually use a much higher trim setting.

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20% always expect for 787 where I use none

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I use 5% - 10% for takeoffs that don’t use the whole runway or doesn’t need 100% power.

10% - 20% for long takeoffs or 100% power or very heavy aircraft such as an A380 fully loaded

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Depends on the aircraft type.
A320 CEO family 0
A330s 30%
A340 don’t really fly
A350-900 30%
A380 30-50%
717 don’t really fly
737 NG Family 15%
747 family 30%
757-200 20%
767-300ER 40%
777 family 30%
787 family 20%
CRJ family don’t realy fly
ERJ-175 30%
ERJ-190 30%
DC-10s don’t really fly
MD-11s don’t really fly
The rest I don’t really fly

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Yeah, I leave it at whatever. Unless it got saved at a very high percentage in some direction for whatever reason.

Just being aware of possible adverse offsets:
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But I’ve never really had a problem with device pitch angle range being adequate enough to accomplish the needed task (though, of course, way beyond “neutral” can increase the burden, in some circumstances more than others.)

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Thank you very much you helped me a lot

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For a smooth rotation, I always take a very very high trim.
On the 787 around 100% load is 30% trim and other aircraft’s like a388 on 100% load is 40% or even 50%
I’ve usually noticed the MD11F and MD11 is hard to lift up so I use a lot of trim in them as well.

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I’m using trim but depends of the airplane in my opinion.

For example if i’m flying the B737 then I use 30-40%, depending of the runway distance. When Im flying the B777 then I use a trim around 10%.

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