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Old 30th Nov 2018, 15:36
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Originally Posted by GarageYears
Ha! I think you hit the nail on the head with your first sentence. Except it should be re-written to read: "Boeing may have the ONLY simulator with MCAS functions in Seattle".

I doubt that the simulators produced by TRU and CAE have any modeling of the MCAS functionality, and even if they do, I doubly doubt there is a malfunction that allows a single AOA probe failure and corresponding cascading effects.

-GY
MCAS is active during stall-type conditions. Sim qualification includes modelling and matching stalls. So I would expect all sims to include the relevant effects. (But perhaps modelled as a bit of a "black box" rather than with the actual software function on the aircraft.)

What they almost certainly don't have is, as you say, the ability to run specific engineering failure cases.

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