Originally Posted by terminal

Because you can’t use pitch and power when MCAS is doing what it’s doing unless you kill the trim switches. The MCAS is operative WHILE handflying
The issue is recognition of what’s happening.
Air speed unreliable while the stick shaker is going crazy nose pitches down at 1k feet AGL?
You’re telling me that with the current training, you’d figure out what’s going on? You click off autopilot and it gets WORSE? Unless you’ve had training on the system...aside from a CBT.