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MCAS is not essential. It exist to make the airplane behave like the older B737.

• mantap 7y ago
  This just isn't true. MCAS was added because it is a safety requirement that stick forces strictly increase. You don't want the thing to start stalling itself.
  • zaroth 7y ago
    I think you mean decrease — pulling back should become less effective as you enter a stall.
    • Stratoscope 7y ago
      Stick force doesn't refer to how effective any stick movement is. Roughly speaking, stick force is the amount of force the pilot has to to apply to the stick to achieve a given movement of the control surfaces. As the airplane gets closer to a stall, you want to make it harder for the pilot to pull it fully into the stall, by increasing the required stick force. If the stick force decreased as the airplane approached a stall, then the pilot would have to actively push the stick back into more stable flight.