Originally Posted by
fireflybob
Was it a certification requirement that MCAS had to be installed on the B737 Max? One presumes that if MCAS had not been installed these accidents would not have occurred. You have to be careful that when you attempt to fix one problem (potential stall) that you don't generate other issues. Are we trying to make modern aircraft too "idiot proof"?
Yes, possibly...
This was my line of attack a few pages back...
"Was there a proper debate with the AW authority about the way a neutral or diminishing control force/ AoA curve could or should be addressed ?"
Sodding about with high rate stab trim as the aircraft approaches stall and this weird repetitive re-trim logic seems to come from a generation of engineers with little if any grounding or interest in everyday aviation...
Are we producing a breed of designers not really aviation people through and through... this sort of solution would've surely been discussed to death down the pub here after work and ridiculed by the 'old hands' and thrown out early doors... as highly dubious and a heavy handed approach.
If indeed a PM ~ alpha curve like that would've been condoned at all.
The industry seems to be re-learning old lessons... don't automate your way out of bad basic design, also, simplify the flight systems, reduce training needs, not the opposite.