Mr. Jeeves on his post #8 advised that the MCAS would only shut off for nine seconds and then re-enable.
This sounds like the same kind of thing the first Airbus aircraft software was accused of when they first rolled them out. Their software would override the natural instincts of a professional pilot.
Why not let the nose rise and cause a stall warning if it needs to. Just put a blurb in the iPad training that the higher mount of the engines may cause the nose to rise more at full thrust.
Reminds me of the old joke about the extremely high cost of designing an astronauts pen that would write in zero gravity. The cosmonauts just used a pencil.
“Why not let the nose rise and cause a stall warning if it needs to. Just put a blurb in the iPad training that the higher mount of the engines may cause the nose to rise more at full thrust.”
That was not why MCAS was installed. See my earlier post.
“This sounds like the same kind of thing the first Airbus aircraft software was accused of when they first rolled them out. Their software would override the natural instincts of a professional pilot.”
As I read this I thought about a car I bought not long ago, to replace the same model car I owned that was getting a bit old. The new car had all electronic steering, and it just didn’t ‘feel’ right. I actually felt it was somewhat unstable at highway speeds, as did lots of other customers. The company did some software workarounds, but it has never had the same touch/feel of my older car. I can imagine how that would affect pilots who were used to a specific type of airplane response to their actions.