Salute!
Great article, pat.
The 40 secind scenario appears to be simply allowing the MCAS to act without the crew using the trim switches. Eventually, unless power is reduced, the aero forces on the elevator and the awesome column forces required will not permit a recovery. And who wants to pull power back just after gear up? ( although I did for my LEF episode as I was light and could easily fly at 200 knots - it was the old " doing O.K. now, so don't change anything" procedure that lets you live to be old and grey) I also feel most of the 737 folks here would have used the trim switches for a time before treating the problem as a FUBAR trim system and then turning off the power as the previous flight crew did.
The MCAS mod should be interesting and provide a feast of fodder here on pPrune, huh?
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