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> Meaning once the aircraft pitches up the pilot doesn't have enough authority to push the nose back down. Or, alternatively, the pitch up happens so quickly a
by linuxftw 8y ago
> Meaning once the aircraft pitches up the pilot doesn't have enough authority to push the nose back down.
Or, alternatively, the pitch up happens so quickly and severely the risk of stall is too great above a certain AoA and the pilot won't have adequate time to respond.
If either is the case, it implies the aircraft is not safe to fly without MCAS operational, and possibly not at all.
- rootusrootus 8y agoMCAS is not an emergency system, it is a trim control system designed to make the plane behave predictably in an otherwise unstable flight regime. If you wanted it to move fast, you would use a stick pusher; moving the trim takes many seconds.