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Old 15th Mar 2019, 16:37
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Originally Posted by Luc Lion
What I find hard to understand is why Boeing didn't elect to upgrade the Elevator Feel System for compensating this undesired aerodynamic behaviour and instead created a new MCAS software module in the FCC.
Elevator feel / feedback is a simple mechanical system. It is not possible to simply extend that to cover special parts of the flight envelope.
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