Trim neutral for landing - do you really do it?

[virgo47]

Hello guys, it's pretty quiet on this part of the forum, but I'll try again. At first, it puzzled me why I needed to push the stick so much in landing instant actions, while in most other situations I needed to pull it in most cases. I thought "perhaps it's the Nevada thin air" (silly me), but in the end, I'd bet it's the fuel level!

When I start the plane and take off, I have more fuel - which is in the front. When I land in some of these instant actions, it says I have 10-15m of fuel, hence a comparatively lighter front, hence rising nose and the need to push the stick. But I need to push the stick (or, conversely, pull with a full airplane) quite a lot - with any fine curve I'll easily get to the less comfortable steeper part of the curve.

Do you really never trim the plane before the landing? Is it reasonable to land without any trim when using two quite a "different planes"? Or do you not use any curve on this plane?

What are your best practices?

Any tips are dearly welcome.

[razo+r]

Trim is used to cancel out the aerodynamic forces on your stick. If you have to constantly apply pressure, trim it out. This goes for pretty much all phases of flight. 

[virgo47]

Generally yes, I totally agree, and I never thought about it for other planes. In my original post, I forgot to mention that "Trim neutral" is a checklist item for landing this plane. Unless "neutral" means "to trim it" - but that doesn't sound right.

I don't know whether there is any reason or danger when landing this plane trimmed for the current situation, but I'll probably ignore the "neutral trim" item for now and see whether it makes landing easier or not. Thanks.

[RustBelt]

Sometimes for aerobatics you intentionally trim with a bias and strong arm your straight and level flight portions. That checklist item is to trim the plane back to a neutral stick for landing.