Originally Posted by
formulaben
OK, I'll bite. What do you do when the aircraft rolls (e.g. initiates a turn) when none was called for? And what about a yaw? And what about a pitch? What would any sensible airman do?
You got it the wrong way round. This wasn't a challenge. It was to point out that the problem of erroneous MCAS activation is
not as easily identified as, say, lane-assist failing or the autopilot initiating a wrong turn.
So pilots identifying a rogue autopilot or lane-assist has nothing to do with being able to identify rogue MCAS, especially in a noisy and high-workload environment.
Moreover, you cannot assume that "any sensible airman" (if you can even define that) would do what you, in the comfort of your armchair and having perfect hindsight, have deduced was the most appropriate action, simply by our privileged knowledge of the actual outcome.
Bernd