Originally Posted by
GPullR
Flew it for years. How did it get to such an out of trim situation ?? Takeoff power and over 325 kias. Any aerodynamic problem ypu ha e , slow down, take the load off.
You flew the Max for years, prior to the crashes?
Interesting.
Originally Posted by
Chuck D
This is completely incorrect. Like, actually 100% wrong. Not normal speed, not overridden with opposite yoke.
For anyone placing blame primarily on crew actions, do you really think that a dozen or so of those incidents under Boeing's original design and with their original generous system description would have left any airline without high risk of the exact same result? It's fine now but Boeing destroyed its reputation with their design of that single point failure system and how they handled it after the first crash.
Correct. MCAS trims at the high speed “flaps down” rate, with the flaps up.
Even Boeings own test pilots lost control of the airplane during simulator testing, per their own documentation.
Apparently there are a lot of underpaid heros here that should be test pilots, not FMS managers.