Originally Posted by
airlinegypsy
I’m not sure what you mean by speed on elevator thrust mode. The report says at 1,000 feet the autopilot was engaged (on the 3rd attempt) and 20 seconds later level change at 238kts was selected. This climb mode the auto throttle will hold the N1 limit and the auto pilot will pitch to maintain airspeed. 18 seconds later the autopilot is off and MCAS is engaged.
But yes good point that it will overspeed the aircraft with the nose now coming down. But that still doesn’t relieve the crew from being pilots and not dangerously letting the speed run away.
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Yeah that's what Embraer calls "speed on elevator" - it will hold N1, and pitch for airspeed. If you pitch down, it will overspeed.
It's easy to miss one item from your scan with stick shakers going off and master cautions, GPWS warnings etc, especially something that you're used on being all automatic (speed). This time that, in my opinion, happened to be a critical element in this accident chain.