Originally Posted by
SeenItAll
Given how much all of the armchair experts on this forum seem to know about MCAS, it is extremely hard to believe that a B737-Max8 pilot who flies for a competent operator (and ET is in that group) would be oblivious to MCAS' effects and the way to stop them. Surely all of these pilots would have been deluged with training information about MCAS issues over the last several months. Indeed, given MCAS' recent infamy, I think it is more likely that pilots are now misinterpreting nonMCAS faults to be an MCAS ones than vice versa.
Not to mention the fact that the guys flying the Lion Air plane the day before (UK captain) had the same problem as the accident flight, hit the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches and went on about their day. Even if this is MCAS, again, and even if it was the same for Lion Air, I still believe 100% that a US or European crew wouldn't have had any problem at all. A new captain and a 200-hour wonder is the absolute worst possible combination here... just saying.