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Old 17th Mar 2019, 00:34
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Originally Posted by FullWings
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...
Assuming that you knew about the existence of MCAS in the first place.
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