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Too much is being made about the sensors. From my pilot's perspective it's far worse that: a.) MCAS can mistrim the airplane faster than pilots can even recogn
by cmurf 8y ago
Too much is being made about the sensors. From my pilot's perspective it's far worse that:
a.) MCAS can mistrim the airplane faster than pilots can even recognize what's going on.
b.) Boeing and FAA directives still don't account for a.), and therefore they're still giving pilot's inadequate advice. And it's sufficiently bad that I think it's intentional because the advice is consistent with prior Boeing 737 models: runaway stabilizer. If they came up with a better checklist to run that only applies to the MAX, that is suggestive that at least difference training is needed, and might even suggest a different type certificate is needed.
Much of this is discussed here which I found to be decent:
https://www.satcom.guru/2019/04/what-happened-on-et302.html https://www.satcom.guru/2019/04/what-happened-on-et302.html
incredibly it just dumps the stab and leaves it to the pilot to get it back.
Electric trim must be used to neutralize control column pitch forces before cutout!