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Old 18th Mar 2019, 18:16
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Originally Posted by flyingchanges
It is runaway stab trim...
Maybe not all at once, but if it is not doing what you want, then it is out of control.
Clearly MCAS is not a runnaway trim condition, otherwise we would be reaching for the cut-out switches every time the speed-trim operated. I think some people here do not realise that the trimmer doing its own thing is operations normal.

And the auro-trim systems are always mis-trimming the aircraft (the trim inputs by the speed-trim system are always wrong, and you always have to re-trim manually). So at what point does ‘operations normal’ become ‘operations abnormal’? At what point do you assume that the trimmer has gone awry..??

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