PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Ethiopian airliner down in Africa
View Single Post
Old 19th March 2019 | 23:58
  #2105 (permalink)  
Loose rivets
Psychophysiological entity
20 Anniversary
 
Joined: Jun 2001
: ATPL
Posts: 3,383
Likes: 169
From: Walton on the Naze Essex.
yanrair
"... Much more dangerous than MACS is a fault called runaway stabiliser where the STAB runs out of control until it hits the stops and we all say the Lord’s Prayer and goodbye . . ."
Perhaps not so dangerous, since it is a well practised memory item and should be contained in a moment. What is proving to be the real danger is the timing of the symptoms. With the added problems of other chaotic items, the MCAS's progress is insidious - "proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects".

Just the word for this situation.



.
.

Last edited by Loose rivets; 20th March 2019 at 00:29.
Loose rivets is offline