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To: csvset

If the computer is controlling the trim, then what about input from the altimeter? Does that parameter not come into play?

Altimeter tells the computer we’re at 1000’. Computer still trims the nose down?


59 posted on 03/20/2019 6:13:50 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Trump... The exorcist of Cultural Marxism)
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To: CodeJockey
Exactly.

What a sorry way to automate an aircraft.

80 posted on 03/20/2019 6:59:51 AM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan?
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To: CodeJockey; WhoisAlanGreenspan?; csvset

“Altimeter tells the computer we’re at 1000’. Computer still trims the nose down?”

The MCAS program appears to have been designed to activate upon the decision of a single Angle Of Attack sensor.


112 posted on 03/20/2019 11:24:47 AM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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