Originally Posted by
FGD135
Not accurate to say that. Yes, it is creating a pitch-down moment, but that moment doesn't necessarily result in any change to the final attitude of the aircraft.
Right, but it's
effecting pitch attitude. So maybe the actual pitch attitude doesn't change, though I think considering it's design it would be hoping the pitch did decrease as it's primarily meant to become active in a stall scenario. From MCAS' point of view, it is effecting the pitch attitude by adding nose down trim. It is "trying to pull the nose down" whether that results in a net effect of the pitch changing or not. Put another way, I would expect that when it's active, the nose would pitching down more than if it was not.