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Old 17th Mar 2019, 00:27
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FullWings
 
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Originally Posted by edmundronald
Non pilot question: Would a despair measure of selecting flaps have disabled MCAS?

Edmund
Probably. But if you’ve reached the point when you’re pretty sure it’s MCAS gone AWOL, you’d be disconnecting the stab, not deploying flaps at 330kts+

As I’ve pointed out before, how do you know when you’ve got the trim running and it wasn’t you on the switches, that it’s a runaway or normal operation, especially during the cleanup. Is there a simple yes/no path you can follow? Seems not...
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