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Old 4th Dec 2018, 16:11
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RetiredF4
 
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Originally Posted by gums
Salute!

So I would like to review the bidding, huh?
- stick shaker activates as pilot rotates and lifts off. I can see this happening with an abrupt stick input at the normal speed and maybe a bit more AoA than normal. Stick shaker continues. A caution indication or two is displayed, but altitude is insurance, and plane is climbing.
- MCAS, aka "Hal", sees the high AoA, flaps are up, and speed being way less than the mach washout limit, bumps the stab maybe to the max limit for one "bump" and stick forces go up.
- crew feels this and beeps trim with the stick switch.You can see the increased stick force correlating with the MCAS down trim cmd and resulting stab movement. Stab reverses, stick forces go down and the 5 second timer starts. Hal is waiting, and the high AoA is there.
- Hal again cmds stab to move another increment, and crew feels this, as shown on stick forces, then makes manual up trim inputs.
- The plot shows a gradual increase in down trim position of the stab because everytime crew beeps the trim Hal stops, but stab not trimmed all the way back up to original degrees. So the slope of stab position values is slightly negative.
- Hal waits 5 seconds and the process repeats two dozen times until "the event"
- At "the event", control input force from each pilot diverge, Hal continues to trim nose down and crew briefly beeps trim but mainly pulls back harder and harder.

Is that how most here see it?

Gums asks....
And the pointer to the problem is in this quote.
I think MCAS was a rudimentary attempt to prevent a stall developing.

It has been the pilots job to prevent a stall developing. Obviously we accept that pilots no longer are able to understand stalls and let HAL do the stuff. Problem is, pilots who do not understand stalls and their causes do not understand the raction of HAL either.
So what are we goeing to do next?
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