Posted for Noel Quiñones <noel@cginteractive.com>:
I just landed 9070R LVIP with me and my wife using a lot of force and
pulling the control stick to the right trying to mantain a level flight path
towards the runway three mile in front of us. I disconnected the autopilot
as soon as I saw my wife fighting the controls 6 mile out, but forces
remained the same. Then I looked at the aileron trim tab and watched for any
movement while actuating the trim switch. To my surprise the reliable
aileron trim tab was not moving neither up or down. My wife wanted to turned
around to a wider runway but I thought that between us we were going to be
able to keep the plane level on landing. We did and on the ground, while
cooling the turbos,the damm trim tab was working fine moving freely up and
down. This is when the tower called me and ask me to talk to them on the
phonre. We did not reported ourself a mile out and landed without clearance.
Great way to end the weekend.

All I can say is that we were trying our altitude pre-select for the first
time and playing with it. I sent anb e-0mail to the panel builder asking him
if the aileron trim tab was independent or is connected to the autopilot. Or
was it the autopilot that screw us somehow.



9070r