The Seattle Times article makes for very disturbing reading. Again,
FCeng84's detailed clarifications have helped a lot.
In the article, one light-bulb moment for me was that the 'Resetting' of the MCAS was in fact a 're-datumizing', (my term) which allows one to understand the
summed inputs reaching the end of the jackscrew.
EDIT, just noticed the quote by
safelife back here.
Ethiopian airliner down in Africa
Talk about elephants in the room. I'd missed this entire page - see Ian W.
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